Re: How to put mode Info into comment header of program?

[Joel J. Adamson]

Wei <william.wtang@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if this is a trivial question. But it definitely seems
> non-trivial to me.
>
> Recently I browse some common lisp code written for Artificial
> Intelligence, which can be found at 
> http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/lisp/doc/overview.html.
>
> I think the author uses Emacs for his common lisp programming, The
> interesting part is on the top of each of his lisp program, he has a
> line like ";;; -*- Mode: Lisp; Syntax: Common-Lisp; -*- File:
> utilities.lisp". I think this is automatic inserted through some
> mechanism and could be used for other programming language mode also,
> such as cc-mode.
>
> However, I searched over goolge for quite a while and couldn't find
> what kind of setting can enable this.

You may want auto-insert-mode; its associated variables perform
auto-insertion of headers for source code in various languages.  You can
also customize it on a per-directory basis for specific projects.

Joel

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