Bug#607812: Not a bug - found the cause - now is a wishlist request to update doc

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Thu Jan 6 01:47:04 UTC 2011


severity 607812 wishlist
forwarded 607812 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638790
thanks

On 29/12/10 12:07, Russell Gadd wrote:
> I discovered why this happened. The files I was editing were C programs with
> a header line as follows:
> /* -*- Mode: C; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 8; tab-width: 8 -*- */
> No doubt this will be immediately familiar to you, it isn't to me. There's
> no reference I can see in the help file to indicate that there are some sort
> of editor commands available in the loaded file. Perhaps this is part of
> some common Linux editor like emacs? (which I have never used)
> 
> I suggest some reference to this behaviour be inserted into the help file.
> 
> Perhaps this should be left as a bug reclassified as wishlist?

Done and forwarded.

Cheers,
Emilio





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