Re: inserting some Emacs-specific stuff into the source files

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> Wait wait wait!  eval blocks are very very inconvenient when sharing
> files because you'd be insane to have `enable-local-eval' set to
> t... it's a virus waiting to happen.  And always being asked about
> evalling the block is unnecessarily tedious.  Let's extend [X]Emacs with 
> a variable that gets used to set the style after a file is loading so it 
> does not need to be an eval block at the end of the file.

I agree.  Doing eval should be avoided if at all possible.

However, cc-mode has enough non-eval hooks you don't need it.

For example, a project I worked on, where most of the people
did not use Emacs but some did, added this to the end of each
Java file:

// This is for people using the Emacs editor:
// Local Variables:
// c-file-style: "java"
// c-file-offsets: ((substatement-open . 0))
// tab-width: 4
// indent-tabs-mode: t
// End:

Without having tried it, my guess is the effect of what you
want can be *safely* achieved by:

/*
  Local Variables:
  c-file-style: "gnu"
  End:
*/
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