From: Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 68692-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68692: 29.1; File-local variable storage for strings with newlines
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:49:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1cbj2n4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a5osbjxl.fsf@gnu.org>
>> Is there a programmatic way (using elisp) to insert a local variable
>> value that is a string that extends over multiple lines, as in my
>> original example? I can write a helper function to replace newlines
>> with backslash-newlines, but determining the right suffix to add at the
>> end of each line is tricky.
>
> We have add-file-local-variable and modify-file-local-variable -- did
> you try any of them? If they don't handle this case, we need to fix
> them so they do.
Yes, I tried both, and they don't handle this case correctly. (My
original bug report used add-file-local-variable in the reproduction
instructions.)
Should this be filed as a bug, or should I email emacs-devel about this?
I don't know how to solve it beyond let-binding print-escape-newlines to
t in modify-file-local-variable -- I don't know if this can cause other
problems.
Karthik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-26 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-24 17:21 bug#68692: 29.1; File-local variable storage for strings with newlines Karthik Chikmagalur
2024-01-24 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <877cjw3hwc.fsf@gmail.com>
2024-01-26 8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-26 19:49 ` Karthik Chikmagalur [this message]
2024-01-26 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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