Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 03:50:58 -0800 (PST) From: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net> So there you are, reading along in some file that you found. Just browsing away, when what happens, but some magic bit of Local variables: find-file-hooks: ((lambda () ... probably common knowledge but... it won't work if you have: (setq inhibit-local-variables t) in your .emacs. Robert Lau Systems Programmer, Unix Systems University Computing Services 213-740-2866 University of Southern California rslau@usc.edu 1020 W Jefferson, LA, CA USA, 90089-0251