From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:32:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871rgd6jzk.fsf@web.de> <87r1oclvkp.fsf@web.de> <87blffzq7f.fsf@web.de> <87wny2r1a1.fsf@web.de> <20201130222601.GA30426@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20907"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hKe3DpoXj+QckueGaxU2U0fh8Ao= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 23:35:26 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kjrlW-0005Lu-Gb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 23:35:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45658 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjrlV-000354-Ia for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:35:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjrlD-00034w-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:55136 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjrlB-00007k-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kjrl8-0004nk-Hr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 23:35:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125778 Archived-At: > I just have a typical example in front of me right now. I have a small > program written in Scheme. To make sure Emacs starts Scheme mode, the > end of the file has: > > ;; Local Variables: > ;; mode: scheme > ;; End: > > This makes sure the variable `mode' is set to the value "scheme". But Hmm... not sure if it's the best example: there is no `mode` variable. The corresponding variable is called `major-mode` and will be set to `scheme-mode` and the above doesn't set the var directly but just calls the function `scheme-mode` (which then sets the var, tho it doesn't have to: you can also use `;; mode: auto-fill` which will enable `auto-fill-mode` and won't set `major-mode`). IOW, in file-local variables, `mode` is quite special (there aren't many such exceptions. The main other one is `coding`). Stefan