"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> Stephen J. Turnbull:
>
> > No current XEmacs recognizes cookies in the second line. I tried it,
> > it broke, I backed it out, had a bad attack of day job, and forgot to
> > fix the patch. :-(
>
> Where did the coding cookie originally come from? It seems to have
> arrived in Python from somewhere else, probably Emacs but I couldn't find a
> reference in PEP-263.
>From the FSF Emacs 21.1 info file (node "Recognizing Coding Systems"):
You can specify the coding system for a particular file using
the `-*-...-*-' construct at the beginning of a file, or a local
variables list at the end (*note File Variables::). You do this
by defining a value for the "variable" named `coding'. Emacs does
not really have a variable `coding'; instead of setting a
variable, this uses the specified coding system for the file. For
example, `-*-mode: C; coding: latin-1;-*-' specifies use of the
Latin-1 coding system, as well as C mode. When you specify the
coding explicitly in the file, that overrides
`file-coding-system-alist'.
Not sure if this existed in 20.x.
I think the emacs manual is online somewhere, but not sure where.
Cheers,
M.
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