freeimage # -*- tcl -*-

[Emory Smith]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:45 PM, macports-dev- 
request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:02:54 +0200
> From: Jochem Huhmann <joh at 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