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: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:18:02 -0500 Message-ID: <45B9E36A.3040309@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 1169810328 11958 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2007 11:18:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:18:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 12:18:41 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 1HAP6P-0007Us-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:18:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAP6O-0003lw-SO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAP6B-0003jV-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:18:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAP6A-0003ir-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:18:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAP6A-0003ih-LU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HAP6A-0007do-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 4772 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2007 11:18:24 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 26 Jan 2007 11:18:24 -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:40668 Archived-At: On 01/25/2007 05:22 PM somebody named Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + ken : > > .... > > I am looking at the code now (the function in question is called > hack-local-variables, and it is found in files.el), and there should > be no way you are going to see that message unless there is something > in front of the string "Local Variables:" on the line. > > Oh, wait, one more wild guess. hack-local-variables goes 3000 > characters back from the end of the file and searches forward for > "Local Variables:". Don't tell me your HTML file contains another > instance of that phrase? Thanks, Harald. You have very good eyes to see across continent and ocean. I titled my test document so:

Testing the Use of Local Variables in.... Replacing a SPACE with " " made the errors cease. (I was frankly surprised that the (uppercase) 'V' and absence of the colon after "Variables" didn't distinguish this text enough from the intended instance. Perhaps a later version has/will.) So, another dark obscure code corner illuminated, good karma created. Thanks another time.