From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: What is the "official" name of the -*- line? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:43:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20341.22043.49732.440893@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333089842 15017 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2012 06:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:44:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 30 08:44:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDVZ1-0000rS-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:43:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDVZ0-0002Hf-L9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:43:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDVYx-0002HY-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDVYv-0005Jq-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:43:54 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:55857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDVYv-0005J6-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:43:53 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q2U6hdZL023533 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:43:39 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q2U6hdqs006970; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:43:39 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q2U6hdLi006966; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:43:39 +0200 X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149251 Archived-At: Hi, I've noticed that Emacs now outputs a message "Malformed mode-line" when it encounters bad syntax in the first line of the file. [1] This may be a little confusing because the line at the bottom of a window is called mode line, too. Anyway, this makes me wonder if there's an "official" name for that line? In documentation and source code I've found all of the following: `-*-' line first line mode-line prop line Ulrich [1]