* bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon @ 2015-02-11 8:33 Jari Aalto 2015-02-11 9:26 ` Nicolas Richard 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Jari Aalto @ 2015-02-11 8:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 19834 Package: emacs Version: 46.1 Severity: normal The following causes systax error if put on file. It seems that ";" isn't taken as the comment-start. This example is from Windows AHK configuration file <http://www.autohotkey.com>. ;; Local Variables: ;; mode: text ; ;; comment-start: ; ;; End: -- System Information Debian Release: jessie/sid APT Prefers testing APT policy: (990, testing) (500, unstable) Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux picasso 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 -- Versions of packages `emacs depends on'. Depends: emacs24 24.4+1-4.1 GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ GUI support) emacs24-lucid 24.4+1-4.1 GNU Emacs editor (with Lucid GUI support) emacs24-nox 24.4+1-4.1 GNU Emacs editor (without GUI support) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon 2015-02-11 8:33 bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon Jari Aalto @ 2015-02-11 9:26 ` Nicolas Richard 2015-02-11 18:18 ` jari 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Nicolas Richard @ 2015-02-11 9:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jari Aalto; +Cc: 19834 Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes: > ;; Local Variables: > ;; mode: text ; > ;; comment-start: ; > ;; End: it seems to me this should be written as ;; Local Variables: ;; mode: text ;; comment-start: ";" ;; End: -- Nico. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon 2015-02-11 9:26 ` Nicolas Richard @ 2015-02-11 18:18 ` jari 2015-02-11 18:46 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: jari @ 2015-02-11 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Nicolas Richard; +Cc: 19834 On 2015-02-11 10:26, Nicolas Richard wrote: | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes: | | > ;; Local Variables: | > ;; mode: text ; | > ;; comment-start: ; | > ;; End: | | it seems to me this should be written as | | ;; Local Variables: | ;; mode: text | ;; comment-start: ";" | ;; End: Please document this in https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables as semicolon seems to be a special case. Jari ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon 2015-02-11 18:18 ` jari @ 2015-02-11 18:46 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Glenn Morris @ 2015-02-11 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jari; +Cc: 19834, Nicolas Richard jari wrote: > Please document this in > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables > > as semicolon seems to be a special case. comment-start is a string, so trying to set it to ; rather than ";" is simply a user-error. I don't think "how to set a variable to a literal semicolon" is worth documenting, since it's not something that you need to do. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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