From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: longish Local Variables in Files Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:58:19 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412A5A6B.6000508@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093294748 2801 80.91.224.253 (23 Aug 2004 20:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 23 22:58:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BzLtw-00052J-00 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:58:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzLyP-0000L1-RL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzLyN-0000Km-VD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:03:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzLyM-0000KR-Es for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzLyM-0000KG-8h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.4.58.12] (helo=horus.isnic.is) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BzLtW-0004ZZ-Pj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (mail.fu-berlin.de [130.133.1.2]) by horus.isnic.is (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/isnic) with ESMTP id i7NKwJUT080654 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:58:20 GMT (envelope-from mod-submit@uni-berlin.de) Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.41) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1BzLtT-00099P-Gf>; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:58:19 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:58:19 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 17 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de mSK8wfR8wwIa0ZCeQ6tj7QUw/ptjmwPOAGwfeBDO/fH3CdQJ4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:8792 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:8792 Dan Jacobson wrote: > In Info: > Here is an example of a local variables list: > > ;;; Local Variables: *** > ;;; mode:lisp ***... > > Yes, right. But what about when you want to use a longish one and > want to break the line? Then you are out of luck: file local variables must be specified on a single line. What's wrong with having a really long compile-command line in your script? -- Kevin Rodgers