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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:39:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ipnvo-0007Z8-R0@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v7ode6snzz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:01:04 -0500)

    > It sounds ok to me, but does anyone see a likely problem?

    It seems a little ugly to shoe-horn yet another special case in, when
    local variables can just go at the end of the file.

It is a lot more convenient to use -*- -*- for something simple.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06  7:50 file variables and man pages with preprocessors Werner LEMBERG
2007-11-07  0:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-07  4:01   ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-07 16:39     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-11-08  0:54       ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-11-08 17:39         ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-09  7:27           ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-11-09 20:16             ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-10 17:54             ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-12  6:45               ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-11-12  8:50                 ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-12 11:20                   ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-11-12 20:13                     ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-13 11:32                       ` Werner LEMBERG

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