What is the "official" name of the -*- line?

What is the "official" name of the -*- line?

[Ulrich Mueller]

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] <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105821>

Re: What is the "official" name of the -*- line?

[Carsten Mattner]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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] <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105821>

Documentation calls the beginning-of-file or end-of-file lines file
local variables.
That should leave mode-line for the status-bar/info-bar row.
I didn't invent it, so there may be more to this.

Re: What is the "official" name of the -*- line?

[Tom Willemsen]

Hey,

On Fri 30 Mar 2012 11:57:42 AM CEST, Carsten Mattner wrote:

 > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
 > > 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] <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105821>
 >
 > Documentation calls the beginning-of-file or end-of-file lines file
 > local variables.
 > That should leave mode-line for the status-bar/info-bar row.
 > I didn't invent it, so there may be more to this.

The add and delete functions call it file-local-variable-prop-line:

add-file-local-variable-prop-line
delete-file-local-variable-prop-line