From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Local variables not being defined Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:17:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <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 1170307125 7775 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2007 05:18:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:18:45 +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 Feb 01 06:18:27 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 1HCUL4-0007or-VA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:18:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HCUL4-0007Ul-AD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HCUKt-0007Ug-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:18:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HCUKr-0007UK-BD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HCUKr-0007UH-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HCUKq-0002QG-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HCUKj-0004ZH-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:18:05 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:18:05 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:18:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <45C08E00.5060705@gmx.at> 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:40814 Archived-At: 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