# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 975770781 0
# Node ID 1c497211a58d3a68eab9d4789ce989cc1ff81b6f
# Parent  2d8a69640e7f8904162980453560e130833fb6f7
Docment that `eval' can be used with local variables in the first
line.  Tell that in shell scripts the second line is used for
local variables.

diff -r 2d8a69640e7f -r 1c497211a58d man/custom.texi
--- a/man/custom.texi	Sat Dec 02 15:23:24 2000 +0000
+++ b/man/custom.texi	Sat Dec 02 15:26:21 2000 +0000
@@ -888,6 +888,15 @@
 must be a coding system name that Emacs recognizes.  @xref{Coding
 Systems}.
 
+  The @code{eval} pseudo-variable, described below, can be specified in
+the first line as well.
+
+@cindex shell scripts, and local file variables
+  In shell scripts, the first line is used to identify the script
+interpreter, so you cannot put any local variables there.  To accomodate
+for this, when Emacs visits a shell script, it looks for local variable
+specifications in the @emph{second} line.
+
   A @dfn{local variables list} goes near the end of the file, in the
 last page.  (It is often best to put it on a page by itself.)  The local
 variables list starts with a line containing the string @samp{Local