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    <desc>
      Supported Emacs modelines features.
    </desc>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Sébastien Granjoux</name>
      <email>seb.sfo@free.fr</email>
    </credit>
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  <title>Emacs modelines</title>

  <p>Such modeline is a comment in the first line of the file or the second
  one if the first contains a shebang (#!). It is composed by
  a list of variable names followed by <code>:</code> and a value,
  separated by <code>;</code> and surrounded by <code>-*-</code>.</p>

  <p>A typical <app>Emacs</app> modeline looks like this:</p>
  
  <code>
/* -*- Mode: C; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 4; tab-width: 4 -*- */
  </code>

  <p>Anjuta supports only the following variables.</p>

  <terms>
    <item>
      <title><code>indent-tabs-mode</code></title>
      <p>Set to <code>t</code> to use tabulation for indentation or
      <code>nil</code> to use spaces.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title><code>tab-width</code></title>
      <p>Number of space characters corresponding to one tabulation character.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title><code>c-basic-offset</code></title>
      <p>Number of space characters used to indent C code.</p>
    </item>
  </terms>
 
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