Re: specifying coding system on the first/second line

[Radomir Hejl]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

>
> ,----[ (info "(emacs)File Variables") ]
> |    In shell scripts, the first line is used to identify the script
> | interpreter, so you cannot put any local variables there.  To
> | accommodate for this, when Emacs visits a shell script, it looks for
> | local variable specifications in the _second_ line.
> | 
> |    A "local variables list" goes near the end of the file, in the last
> | page.  (It is often best to put it on a page by itself.)  The local
> | variables list starts with a line containing the string `Local
> | Variables:', and ends with a line containing the string `End:'.  In
> | between come the variable names and values, one set per line, as
> | `VARIABLE: VALUE'.  The VALUEs are not evaluated; they are used
> | literally.  If a file has both a local variables list and a `-*-' line,
> | Emacs processes _everything_ in the `-*-' line first, and _everything_
> | in the local variables list afterward.
> | 
> |    Here is an example of a local variables list: [...]
> `----
>
Thanks, a "local variables list" works. I expected a '-*-' construct on the
second line will work too.

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Radek