On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:45 PM, macports-dev- request@lists.macosforge.org wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:02:54 +0200 From: Jochem Huhmann <joh@gmx.net>
On 2007-04-17, at 12:44, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
The portfile for freeimage begins with this line:
# -*- tcl -*-
I don't know what the line does. I guess it informs some editor that this is a tcl file, but I don't know what editor that would be. Does anyone know?
It's Emacs.
No other portfiles begin with (or contain) such a line, so I would like to remove it for consistency (so that all portfiles begin with the # $Id$ line). Any objection to removing this line?
Is there any technical merit to consistency here? If not and if you absolutely *have* to do something, replace it for clarity with
# Emacs, this is a -*- tcl -*- file.
or something like that.
Jochem
as an alternative, adding the following to your .emacs will tell emacs to use tcl mode for anything with a filename of "Portfile". (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("Portfile$" . tcl-mode)) note however that once you do this, any microsoft word documents saved as "Portfile" and subsequently opened in emacs will be opened in tcl-mode. -emory