From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are 'mode' and 'coding'? Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:09:03 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87hcwo1auo.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164451172 5686 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 10:39:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 11:39:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnuwM-0007NG-D8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:39:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnuwL-0003bi-QP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:39:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnus9-0008Mo-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:35:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnus6-0008L2-Ef for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:35:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnus5-0008Kt-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:34:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.187] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gnus5-0006Y2-2v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.44.164] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1Gnus30HFM-00008o; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:34:55 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0D7FC75806; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:09:04 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Leo In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Sat\, 25 Nov 2006 02\:15\:16 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38960 Archived-At: Leo writes: > On Saturday, 25 Nov 2006, Peter Dyballa wrote: > >> Am 23.11.2006 um 14:31 schrieb Leo: >> >>> One can write "-*-mode:emacs-lisp;coding:utf-8;-*-" on the head of a >>> file to force emacs to use emacs-lisp-mode and utf-8 coding. I am >>> wondering what are `mode' and `coding'. I use 'C-h v' on them and >>> there are no such variables. >> >> It's major-mode and buffer-file-coding-system. > > Are there any other such variables other than 'mode', 'coding' and > 'eval'? Please have a look in the Emacs info system: C-h i g Then type this (Emacs)Specifying File Variables -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany