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Re: What is the "official" name of the -*- line?
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Tom Willemsen |
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Re: What is the "official" name of the -*- line? |
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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:54:04 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.8.2; emacs 24.0.94.1 |
Hey,
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 11:57:42 AM CEST, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've noticed that Emacs now outputs a message "Malformed mode-line"
> > when it encounters bad syntax in the first line of the file. [1]
> > This may be a little confusing because the line at the bottom of a
> > window is called mode line, too.
> >
> > Anyway, this makes me wonder if there's an "official" name for that
> > line? In documentation and source code I've found all of the
> > following:
> >
> > `-*-' line
> > first line
> > mode-line
> > prop line
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> > [1] <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105821>
>
> Documentation calls the beginning-of-file or end-of-file lines file
> local variables.
> That should leave mode-line for the status-bar/info-bar row.
> I didn't invent it, so there may be more to this.
The add and delete functions call it file-local-variable-prop-line:
add-file-local-variable-prop-line
delete-file-local-variable-prop-line