Re: How to specify minor modes via -*- ?

[kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>]

In <mailman.1013.1101230601.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko@conectiva.com.br> writes:

>kj wrote:
>> I can set a file's major mode by including the line
>> 
>> -*- mode: whatever -*-
>> 
>> at the top of the file.  How can I specify the minor modes?

> From C-h i:

> > You can use the `mode' "variable" to set minor modes as well as
> > major modes; in fact, you can use it more than once, first to set the
> > major mode and then to set minor modes which are specific to
> > particular buffers.  But most minor modes should not be specified in
> > the file in any fashion, because they represent user preferences.

Great.  Thanks.  But how did you find it in C-h i?  I searched for
"mode", but got nowhere (too many irrelevant hits).

kj

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