From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Local variables not being defined Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:44:30 -0500 Message-ID: <45B9089E.4010708@speakeasy.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169754315 15213 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2007 19:45:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:45:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 20:45:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HAAWu-0000Z2-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:45:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAAWu-0007Nc-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAAWi-0007Lm-0W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAAWf-0007I6-WD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:44:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAAWf-0007Hd-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.9]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HAAWf-00083l-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 5900 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2007 19:44:47 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Jan 2007 19:44:47 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 OpenPGP: id=45796D04 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40647 Archived-At: On 01/25/2007 11:20 AM somebody named Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + ken : > > | I've got the following at the end of the current buffer (an html file, > | if that matters): > > It does matter, because your HTML won't be valid. > > | " > | html-helper-timestamp-start: " > >>>From the HTML point of view, this contains two comments with this text > between them: > > " > html-helper-timestamp-start: " > > You might wish to just omit the > and < characters from the two > strings to avoid confusing the HTML parser. > > Apart from that, though, your example works for me. Must be some > other reason why it doesn't work for you. > Tnx, Harald, After taking out the html commenting syntax, it's still not working for me. I found that I'm getting this error message (the "Fontifying..." message in the minibuffer must have been hiding it before): File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the prefix") So what does this error message mean and/or what should I do about it?