On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:38:52PM -0800, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > Okay, on more positive note without getting into flamewars again, I > have been thinking the following, but need help from emacs users in the > answers: > > - Recently, I saw a text file where someone included special comments > that apparently emacs picked up automatically and used for > configuration. Is that possible?
Yes, there are some ways you can define Emacs settings on a per-file basis. I can't remember the syntax, but you put it in a specially-formatted comment in the file. It would have to be in all files, I don't believe Emacs picks up configuration files otherwise. I've also found that as long as I leave the tabwidth at 8, the auto-tab-detection works correctly -- i.e., Emacs inserts tabs in files that use tabs, and spaces in files that use spaces. I don't know why it doesn't work with a tabwidth of 4. This isn't pretty, lines wrap poorly, but at least I don't break code that way. The '''-quoted doc strings are still also a problem for Emacs. Ian _______________________________________________ Webware-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-devel
