From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 24625@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24625: 26.0.50; Local variables list at beginning of a file
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:21:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9rm61b9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <847e44gir8.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Marco Wahl on Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:42:19 +0100)
> From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:42:19 +0100
> Cc: 24625@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> For people who want to keep the first line short this feature could
> help.
>
> Possibly of interest:
>
> My motivation asking for this feature was local variables at the bottom
> of outline/Org files. In my experience for those kind of files, which
> typically consist of some trees, it is rather difficult to keep
> something (here the local variables) at the bottom. Too easily a
> further tree gets appended at the end of the file or the trees in the
> file get sorted. On the other hand the top of those kind of files stays
> relatively static.
If this is for Org, perhaps Org could have its own private feature?
In general, having the variables at the beginning will get in the way
of reading the file's contents by humans: you will first need to skip
the variables' section and wonder what does that do there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-14 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-06 8:22 bug#24625: 26.0.50; Local variables list at beginning of a file marcowahlsoft
2019-11-08 2:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-13 10:42 ` Marco Wahl
2019-11-14 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-15 3:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-15 9:07 ` Marco Wahl
2019-12-05 11:17 ` Stefan Kangas
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