How to specify minor modes via -*- ?

How to specify minor modes via -*- ?

[kj]

[ I consider it one of life's little defeats when I'm reduced to
asking this question in a NG, after failing to find out for myself,
via C-h i, Google, etc. *sigh* ]


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?

Thanks!

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

[Leonardo Boiko]

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.

-- 
Leonardo Boiko

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

[kj]

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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NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.

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

[Leonardo Boiko]

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

Well, actually I have a bookmark to the "File Variables" section, 
because I keep forgetting their syntax :)

This is one of the cases where it helps if you know the name of the 
thing you're looking for.  If I didn't knew it, I think I'd try 
Info-searching ('s' key) the Emacs manual for the regexp `-\*-'.

-- 
Leonardo Boiko

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

[V. L. Simpson]

>>>>> "Leonardo" == 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?

You can add another mode switch.

-*- mode: text; mode: outline-minor -*-
              ^ Don't forget that semi-colon.
 
It's probably better to use the 'Local Variable' construct at the
end of the file:

 Local Variable:
 mode: text
 mode: outline-minor   <- Put as many of these lines as you wish
 End:

Comment that section if it's some kind of source code file.

Have fun,
vls