From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: command for creating local variables in files
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:58:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wtotsc56.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Dj8cz-0002A6-KA@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:38:49 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> So for a file-make-local-variable command we need questions like
>
> Major mode: (default <the current major mode>)
> ...
> Variable:
> foo...
> Variable foo set to:
> ...
>
> You are describing a command to set up an entire local variables list.
> That's not what file-make-local-variable should do. That command
> should add or alter ONE variable in the local variables list; only
> one. It can read a variable name and the value string in the usual
> way with the minibuffer.
It might be nice if it also accepted major-mode as a variable name,
and minor mode variables, and buffer-file-coding-system and translated
them into the corresponding sequences.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-17 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 4:50 command for creating local variables in files Werner LEMBERG
2005-06-16 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-16 10:13 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-06-17 4:38 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-17 6:58 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-06-17 18:47 ` Richard Stallman
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