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Re: What are 'mode' and 'coding'?
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Charles philip Chan |
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Re: What are 'mode' and 'coding'? |
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Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:55:42 -0500 |
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On 23 Nov 2006, sdl.web@gmail.com wrote:
> One can write "-*-mode:emacs-lisp;coding:utf-8;-*-" on the head of a
> file to force emacs to use emacs-lisp-mode and utf-8 coding. I am
> wondering what are `mode' and `coding'. I use 'C-h v' on them and
> there are no such variables.
Mode is the Major Mode that the file opens to when it is visited in
Emacs.
Coding is the encoding on the file, ie. UTF-8, Latin1, etc...
Charles
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