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From: Ed Reingold <edward.reingold@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting local variables in a file
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:50:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <475d3c57-281b-47f0-9d9c-d212c1c0db6d@v10g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv62p1lasd.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

On May 23, 10:07 am, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > The following used to work (in an old version of Emacs) at the end of
> > a LaTeX file:
> >    %%% Local variables: %%%
> These lines should work, and work fine in my tests.  The only thing
> thing is that tex-command is not known to be safe to set in this way, so
> when I open such a file, Emacs prompts me to know whether I do want to
> apply this setting.  Not sure why you don't see this prompt.  Maybe you
> have customized enable-local-variables?


That was the problem---I did not have enable-local-variables set to t.
Now it works--thanks!!


      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 14:07 Setting local variables in a file Ed Reingold
2011-05-23 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-23 17:50   ` Ed Reingold [this message]

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