Re: choose input method automatically

[Michael Slass]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

>Simon Strobl wrote:
> > if a file starts with
> >
> >  -*- coding: utf-8;-*-
> >
> > emacs will automatically set the coding to utf-8. Is there something
> > analogous for the input method?
>
>I would try adding this in -*-...-*-:
>
>eval: (set-input-method "foo")
>

There's a gotcha with that --- if you don't want emacs forcing you to
confirm the local eval each time you read one of these files, you'll
need to frob enable-local-eval, as described in the "File Local
Variables" section of the emacs manual (excerpted below):

,----
|    The `eval' "variable," and certain actual variables, create a
| special risk; when you visit someone else's file, local variable
| specifications for these could affect your Emacs in arbitrary ways.
| Therefore, the option `enable-local-eval' controls whether Emacs
| processes `eval' variables, as well variables with names that end in
| `-hook', `-hooks', `-function' or `-functions', and certain other
| variables.  The three possibilities for the option's value are `t',
| `nil', and anything else, just as for `enable-local-variables'.  The
| default is `maybe', which is neither `t' nor `nil', so normally Emacs
| does ask for confirmation about file settings for these variables.
`----

-- 
Mike Slass