Hi, On Thu 28 May 2009 16:37, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> This is complicated in Guile by #!. A reasonable thing would be to have >> the reader have a bit on whether it actually saw an expression yet or >> not. If not, "^;+ [^\n]*coding: ..." would set the file's encoding. > > I think it would make sense to follow Emacs' specification of file-local > variables as closely as possible (info "(emacs) Specifying File > Variables"), as well as its naming scheme for encodings as shown by > `M-x list-coding-systems'. Good points. Although, I wonder how emacs does the right thing regarding coding: if the variable list is at the end of a file. But certainly recognizing it in the first two lines of the file would be robust and follow emacs. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/