From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Local variables not being defined Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:39:28 +0100 Message-ID: <45C08E00.5060705@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170247239 25563 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2007 12:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 31 13:40:24 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 1HCElA-00084c-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:40:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HCElA-0005Ai-2n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:40:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HCEkv-0005AA-Ne for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:40:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HCEku-00059y-8G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:40:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HCEku-00059v-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HCEkt-0003h2-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2007 12:40:01 -0000 Original-Received: from N838P023.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.48.183]) [62.47.48.183] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 31 Jan 2007 13:40:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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:40797 Archived-At: > And hack-local-variables does search for the exact "Local Variables:" > string, so should not have found an occurrence with a lower case `v' and > missing colon: I don't know about the missing colon, but -- User Option: case-fold-search This buffer-local variable determines whether searches should ignore case. If the variable is `nil' they do not ignore case; otherwise they do ignore case. hence > (when (let ((case-fold-search t)) > (search-forward "Local Variables:" nil t)) > (skip-chars-forward " \t") does not look for the exact string.