Re: Local variables not being defined

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > 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.

Oops, I failed to actually read the code and just assumed it bound
case-fold-search to nil -- after all, the Emacs manual always
capitalizes both words.

So why does hack-local-variables bind case-fold-search to t?  Is that
not a bug?


-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA