bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings

bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings

[markusffm]

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                       defining a function:
(defun xxx-insert()
 "anything" 
 (interactive)
 (insert "# Local Variables:\n")
 (insert "# mode: org\n")
 (insert "# End:\n")
 )
will cause Emacs to disregard the Emacs-lisp-mode after re-opening the file, hence no syntax
evaluation anymore
Changing (insert "# Local Variables:\n") to (insert "# Local Bariables:\n") will 'solve' the problem.
Note: exactly the same behaviour invoking emacs with -Q

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 58, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.28, cairo version 1.16.0)
 of 2021-04-26 built on XYZ
Repository revision: 50f29f6a282b7426377be5fb54322fc5b5a487fc
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12011000
System Description: Fedora 33 (Thirty Three)
Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/opt/emacs --sysconfdir=/etc
 --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --libexecdir=/opt/emacs/lib/ --localstatedir=/usr/local/var
 --enable-largefile --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-modules --with-xwidgets
 --without-pop --without-selinux --without-gnutls
 --with-file-notification=yes --with-json --with-cairo
 'CFLAGS=-march=native -Os''
Configured features:
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LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG
RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XPM
XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB
Important settings:
 value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: ELisp/d
Minor modes in effect:
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 recentf-mode: t
 desktop-save-mode: 1
 global-hl-line-mode: t
 hl-line-mode: t
 delete-selection-mode: t
 cua-mode: t
 flymake-mode: t
 savehist-mode: t
 global-auto-revert-mode: t
 auto-insert-mode: t
 tabbar-mwheel-mode: t
 tabbar-mode: t
 smooth-scroll-mode: t
 auto-complete-mode: t
 global-undo-tree-mode: t
 undo-tree-mode: t
 save-place-mode: t
 tooltip-mode: t
 global-eldoc-mode: t
 eldoc-mode: t
 electric-quote-mode: t
 electric-indent-mode: t
 mouse-wheel-mode: t
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 file-name-shadow-mode: t
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 auto-composition-mode: t
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 auto-compression-mode: t
 size-indication-mode: t
 column-number-mode: t
 line-number-mode: t
 global-visual-line-mode: t
 visual-line-mode: t
 transient-mark-mode: t
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray
cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files
window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages
mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads
xwidget-internal dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 327973 299086)
 (symbols 48 32950 2)
 (strings 32 117560 25908)
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bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings

[Gregory Heytings]

> 
> defining a function:
> (defun xxx-insert()
> "anything"
> (interactive)
> (insert "# Local Variables:\n")
> (insert "# mode: org\n")
> (insert "# End:\n")
> )

> will cause Emacs to disregard the Emacs-lisp-mode after re-opening the 
> file, hence no syntax evaluation anymore Changing (insert "# Local 
> Variables:\n") to (insert "# Local Bariables:\n") will 'solve' the 
> problem.
>

Thanks for your bug report.  As far as I can see, this is not a bug, when 
enable-local-variables is t (the default), Emacs searches for the the 
string "Local Variables" string near the end of the buffer, and interprets 
what follows as file-local variable settings.

This is not what you want if "Local Variables" is inside a literal string, 
but detecting that specific case would be cumbersome I think.  I would 
suggest that you replace (insert "# Local Variables:\n") by (insert "# 
Local " "Variables:\n"), with two additional quotation marks between Local 
and Variables.

bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> This is not what you want if "Local Variables" is inside a literal
> string, but detecting that specific case would be cumbersome I think.
> I would suggest that you replace (insert "# Local Variables:\n") by
> (insert "# Local " "Variables:\n"), with two additional quotation
> marks between Local and Variables.

Yup.  So I agree that this isn't a bug, and I'm closing this bug report.

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