Re: select 'mode' from command line?

[Jochen Küpper]

Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm working witha code that has both fortran 77 and fortran 90 parts. All the 
> files, however, are named *.f, and emacs always opens them with the 'fortran 
> mode', which is actually more fortran77. So, I wonder if there's a way to 
> tell 
> emacs to use a specific 'mode' from the command line, overriding the default 
> definition. 

Can you put Local Variable "cookies" into these files?

,----[ (info "(emacs)File Variables") ]
| A file can specify local variable values for use when you edit the file
| with Emacs.  Visiting the file checks for local variable
| specifications; it automatically makes these variables local to the
| buffer, and sets them to the values specified in the file.
`----

Greetings,
Jochen
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