Re: OT: emacs-style variables (etc) in the headers?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm starting on a project where I want to include script
> snippets in the headers of files (perl, shell, etc.) actually
> inside comments where these snippets will not bother the real
> script. Is there an algorithm somewhere to detect the script
> is really a script and not a binary file, what the comment
> character is, and some standard way to include these variables
> and such in files?

I do not fully understand your question.

Could you give a concrete example?
Does interpreter-mode-alist answer the question?


        Stefan "who doesn't read comp.emacs religiously"