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 17:08:50 -0500 Message-ID: <45B92A72.5070709@speakeasy.net> References: <45B924F9.4040600@speakeasy.net> 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 1169762976 16396 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2007 22:09:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:09:36 +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 23:09:29 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 1HACme-00036G-GP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:09:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HACme-0008Ig-08 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:09:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HACmQ-0008GL-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HACmM-0008Ek-TS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HACmM-0008Ea-PR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:09:10 -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 1HACmM-0001cD-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 25042 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2007 22:09:08 -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 22:09:08 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) In-Reply-To: <45B924F9.4040600@speakeasy.net> 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:40656 Archived-At: On 01/25/2007 04:45 PM somebody named ken wrote: > On 01/25/2007 03:25 PM somebody named Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: >> + ken : >> >> | 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? >> >> See the info file about file variables: Every line of the Variables >> section must have the exact same prefix, which may be empty. This >> appears to be the case with your example. Or did some lines have >> initial spaces or tabs that your news posting software suppressed? >> If so, get rid of them. >> > > That can't be the problem as the "prefix" is and has always been the > same for all lines-- nothing at all. I.e., all lines start to the far > left... in the very first column. > > Again: > > Even goofier... Trying something else, I deleted all those six lines and made this the first line in the file (note that it might wrap in your mail client): as per "info emacs". Did C-x C-v to reload the file, did C-h v and got the same error message (about a "missing prefix"). emacs-version: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-03-22 on lorien (YYY,YSU) tnx