Re: Can I turn on some minor mode on specific files?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi list,
>
>    I sometimes do not need to spell check for all the text files, but
>    only a few specific files on-line. So I would like the spell checker
>    like flymake only turned on for these files. Is there a way to do so?
>    I guess that the file-local variable might help, however I am not
>    familiar with the `eval' syntax.

Just put: -*- mode:flyspell -*-
on the first or second line.


Alternatively, put:

Local Variables:
mode: flyspell
End:

within the last 512 bytes of the file.



If you want to activate it for a whole familly of files determined by
their path (eg. extension, name or directory component), you can use
auto-mode-alist.


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