Re: vim modlines

[harven]

On Aug 30, 1:16 pm, TheLonelyStar <nab...@lonely-star.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the vim the last line of a file can be a "modline" The modline then tells
> vim thins like whether to use tabs or spaces and other formating
> information.
>
> Can this somehow be done in emacs to?
>
> Thanks
> Nathan
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In emacs, the first line can be used as a modline. For example, a file
beginning by

-*- mode: flyspell; ispell-dictionary: "english"; coding: latin-1 -*-

will select latin-1 encoding and operate spell-checking on the fly
with an english dictionary.

The following two lines

-*- mode: auto-fill; mode: hi-lock; indent-tabs-mode: nil-*-
;; Hi-lock: (("[0-9]+" (0 (quote hi-blue-b) t)))

set automatic wrapping of lines with length greater than the width of
the buffer, highlight all numbers in a blue color, and use spaces
instead of tabs.