From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Willemsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the "official" name of the -*- line? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:54:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20341.22043.49732.440893@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>, NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333112077 20631 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2012 12:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Carsten Mattner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 30 14:54:35 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 1SDbLc-000599-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:54:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39438 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDbLc-0006dw-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDbLU-0006dm-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDbLO-0000lG-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from r3.smtp1.alwaysdata.com ([176.31.58.10]:48224) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDbLO-0000l8-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from 78-21-105-160.access.telenet.be ([78.21.105.160] helo=localhost) by smtp1.alwaysdata.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SDbLB-00039S-Hb; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:54:05 +0200 User-agent: mu4e 0.9.8.2; emacs 24.0.94.1 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 176.31.58.10 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:149253 Archived-At: 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 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] > > 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