Combining mode and encoding in emacs

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

If I want to specify both mode and source encoding using the

-*- FOO -*-

syntax in emacs -- how can I do that? Both insist on being on the
second line of the file, yet I have found no way of combining them.
That is, the following doesn't work properly (not in all emaxen, at
least):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: iso-8859-1 -*-
# -*- python -*-

If I switch the two, Python doesn't get the encoding. (I need to
specify the mode, because the file has a '.cgi' ending.)

Any tips?

 

[Roy Smith]

If I want to specify both mode and source encoding using the

-*- FOO -*-

syntax in emacs -- how can I do that? Both insist on being on the
second line of the file, yet I have found no way of combining them.
That is, the following doesn't work properly (not in all emaxen, at
least):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: iso-8859-1 -*-
# -*- python -*-

If I switch the two, Python doesn't get the encoding. (I need to
specify the mode, because the file has a '.cgi' ending.)

Any tips?

You can set the mode (and a lot of other things) with a local variable
list on the last page (i.e. after the last form-feed). Put something
like this at the end of your file:

#
# ^L
#

# Local Variables:
# modeython
# End:








Look up info on "file variables" for more details. The -*- stuff is
just a convenient shorthand for a subset of what you can do with the
more verbose Local Variables syntax.

 

[David M. Cooke]

If I want to specify both mode and source encoding using the

-*- FOO -*-

syntax in emacs -- how can I do that? Both insist on being on the
second line of the file, yet I have found no way of combining them.
That is, the following doesn't work properly (not in all emaxen, at
least):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: iso-8859-1 -*-
# -*- python -*-

If I switch the two, Python doesn't get the encoding. (I need to
specify the mode, because the file has a '.cgi' ending.)

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- mode: python; encoding: iso-8859-1 -*-

This works for me in GNU emacs 21.3.

 

[John Lenton]

If I want to specify both mode and source encoding using the

-*- FOO -*-

syntax in emacs -- how can I do that? Both insist on being on the
second line of the file, yet I have found no way of combining them.
That is, the following doesn't work properly (not in all emaxen, at
least):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: iso-8859-1 -*-
# -*- python -*-

If I switch the two, Python doesn't get the encoding. (I need to
specify the mode, because the file has a '.cgi' ending.)

what I do is

# -*- python -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

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