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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>
Cc: 6668@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6668: 23.1.90; desktop-read and/or hack-local-variables fails to load local variables from DOS formatted files
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:38:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87360gdwpg.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19524.29158.40028.579390@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Brent Goodrick's message of "Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:40:22 -0700")

Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com> writes:

> The desktop-read function (actually hack-local-variables) gives a
> false error when the local variables in a buffer that is being read
> have CR codes as a part of the line terminators.

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

> The error stack trace on the latter command is (control codes squashed
> into literal escape sequences for the email report):
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the suffix")
>   signal(error ("Local variables entry is missing the suffix"))
>   error("Local variables entry is missing the suffix")
>   hack-local-variables()
>   normal-mode(t)
>   after-find-file(nil t)
>   find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer perltest.pm> "~/perltest.pm" nil nil "/mnt/sdb1/home/brentg/perltest.pm" (32524636 2065))
>   find-file-noselect("/home/brentg/perltest.pm")
>   desktop-restore-file-buffer("/home/brentg/perltest.pm" "perltest.pm" nil)

Are you still seeing this issue in more recent Emacs versions?

The recipe for reproduction here was kinda convoluted, so I didn't try
it.  If the bug is still present, is loading the perltest.pm file
sufficient to reproduce the bug, or does desktop have to be involved,
somehow?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-19 15:40 bug#6668: 23.1.90; desktop-read and/or hack-local-variables fails to load local variables from DOS formatted files Brent Goodrick
2020-12-08 17:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-08 21:22   ` B Goodr
2020-12-08 21:42     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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