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