Re: inserting some Emacs-specific stuff into the source files

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at eazel dot com>]

"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> writes:
> 
> > Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:
> > 
> > > /*
> > >   Local Variables:
> > >   eval: (and (fboundp 'c-set-style) (c-set-style "gnu"))
> > >   End:
> > > */
> > > 
> > > does anyone have a problem with this?  or any better idea?
> > 
> > I approve. I have the same problem.
> 
> Wait wait wait!  eval blocks are very very inconvenient when sharing
> files because you'd be insane to have `enable-local-eval' set to
> t... it's a virus waiting to happen.  And always being asked about
> evalling the block is unnecessarily tedious.  Let's extend [X]Emacs with 
> a variable that gets used to set the style after a file is loading so it 
> does not need to be an eval block at the end of the file.

In another project I work on we put something like this at the top of
the file, is it possible to do something similar to get GNU style?

/* -*- Mode: C; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 8; tab-width: 8 -*- */

Speaking as an Emacs mostly-ignoramus,

Maciej