From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10608: local-enable-local-variables Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:15:25 +0000 Message-ID: <87lfcn5vb6.fsf@yandex.com> References: <87zh13ms38.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23620"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: 10608@debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris , To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 20 19:16:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l2I1i-000630-98 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:16:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l2I1h-0000CR-BK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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AFAICS (see my >> comments in files.el), its only real use is as a minor >> convenience feature for visiting RMAIL BABYL files with M-x >> find-file. Should it be declared obsolete? Should it affect >> directory-local variables (it currently does, I think)? > It's also used in arc-mode and tar-mode now, so the usage has > increased by an incredible 200%! > I have no opinion whether it should be obsoleted, though, but... > perhaps not? Opinions? What about the fact that 'local-enable-local-variables' does not ignore any mode setting in a -*- line and is therefore different from 'enable-local-variables'? I would have thought this uniqueness in itself would ensure that the variable should be kept and not obsoleted. Best wishes, Colin Baxter