Re: command for creating local variables in files

2005-06-17 Thread Richard Stallman
> You are describing a command to set up an entire local variables list. > That's not what file-make-local-variable should do. That command > should add or alter ONE variable in the local variables list; only > one. It can read a variable name and the value string in the usual

Re: command for creating local variables in files

2005-06-17 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So for a file-make-local-variable command we need questions like > > Major mode: (default ) > ... > Variable: > foo... > Variable foo set to: > ... > > You are describing a command to set up an entire local vari

Re: command for creating local variables in files

2005-06-16 Thread Richard Stallman
So for a file-make-local-variable command we need questions like Major mode: (default ) ... Variable: foo... Variable foo set to: ... You are describing a command to set up an entire local variables list. That's not what file-make-local-variable shoul

Re: command for creating local variables in files

2005-06-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I suggest to add an interactive command > `file-make-local-variable' which does this. As an interface I > can imagine something similar to AUCTeX's C-c C-e command. > > For those of us that do not use AUCTeX, what does that interface > look like? If you type C-c C-e in a just

Re: command for creating local variables in files

2005-06-15 Thread Richard Stallman
I suggest to add an interactive command `file-make-local-variable' which does this. As an interface I can imagine something similar to AUCTeX's C-c C-e command. For those of us that do not use AUCTeX, what does that interface look like? ___

command for creating local variables in files

2005-06-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Here an after-release suggestion: Despite the importance of local variables (and the local variables list) of a file, there apparently isn't a command to explitly create them. I suggest to add an interactive command `file-make-local-variable' which does this. As an interface I can ima