From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: oh, Local Variables are for emacs Date: 04 Jul 2002 13:27:01 +0200 Organization: T-Online Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87u1nggfmi.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025785272 9135 127.0.0.1 (4 Jul 2002 12:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 12:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q5bk-0002NE-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:21:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q4oW-0007Xy-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 07:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.85]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q4lL-0007Ls-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 07:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17Q4lK-0004xe-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:27:02 +0200 Original-Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 17Q4lK-0004uh-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:27:02 +0200 Original-Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 17Q4lJ-0007A1-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:27:01 +0200 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1025782021 01 27080 5Hu-brnGTSAt3F 020704 11:27:01 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i";/yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2450 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2450 jidanni@dman.ddts.net (Dan Jacobson) writes: > $ cat .crontab > 12 6 * * 1-6 echo brush your teeth, etc. > > # Local Variables: > # compile-command: "crontab .crontab" > # End: > > Gentlemen, the average non-emacs user would be google-eyed when he saw > the mysterious "Local Variables" at the bottom of another's crontab or > whatever file. Therefore, adding the word "Emacs" > > # Emacs Local Variables: > # compile-command: "crontab .crontab" > # End: > > should be allowed [maybe works already?] and promoted so 1. people > know which of the 10000 programs on the machine this is > for. 2. increasing brand name recognition a/k/a who's work of art > ;-) You can always write # This is for the sake of Emacs. # Local Variables: ... -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de