On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 05:47:04 +0300 Lars Wirzenius (liw@iki.fi) wrote: > GNU Emacs had a similar feature (certain magic lines in a file could > run any Emacs commands automatically when the file was loaded -- and > Emacs commands are powerful indeed). FYI, this is now disabled by default. The emacs variable are: enable-local-eval (defaults to ask user) enable-local-variables (defaults to obey) Phil.