[Xastir-dev] Editor header in source files

[Hal Mueller]

That’s for Emacs. You can specify major mode and per-file variables. 

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Choosing-Modes.html

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables

Hal
N3YX

> On Apr 30, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen this before, but it does make my emacs behave differently
> (the file had 2 space tabs, this made it do 4) and does nothing to vi.
> 
> RHEL 7
> 
> -j
> 
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:06 AM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I see this header in _some_ of our source files:
>> 
>>    /* -*- c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
>> 
>> Is that for VI -and- Emacs, or just one of them? I use Vim.
>> 
>> I've noticed while editing files in the last couple of weeks that my tab is
>> not 4 chars sometimes. I have to manually space to indent properly.
>> 
>> I thought at one point we needed two headers in our files, one for Emacs
>> and one for VI. I didn't scan all the files but I saw a bunch of files with
>> no header and a bunch with the header above.
>> 
>> --
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> 
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> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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