* buffer-local file variables
@ 2004-06-30 6:12 naehring
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From: naehring @ 2004-06-30 6:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
If `enable-local-variables is set to `t then appearently a newly
loaded text file is searched for the string "local variables:" from
top to bottom.
I would consider that as almost a bug.
If the main text contains the string "local variables:" (which might be
in a comment of some computer program) then emacs misinterprets
this as the beginning of the in-file declaration of the buffer-local
variables. This, almost certainly induces the error
File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the prefix")
There are some cries for help about this error in the
WWW. Maybe, those are due to this buggy behaviour.
I think text files should be searched for "local variables:" from
bottom up. Then, one can avoid the above error message by inserting an
empty local-variables block at the end of the text file.
The only problem left would be some variable setting containing the
string "local variables:". But in most cases those settings can be
done in the first line of the text file with the help of the -*-...-*-
syntax.
Don't know whether this behaviour is special to the Debian version of
gnu emacs.
Specs:
GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2004-04-07 on raven, modified by Debian
Best regards,
Tobias Naehring
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* Re: buffer-local file variables
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@ 2004-07-01 14:59 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2004-07-01 14:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
naehring@iee.et.tu-dresden.de wrote:
> If `enable-local-variables is set to `t then appearently a newly
> loaded text file is searched for the string "local variables:" from
> top to bottom.
That's not true. Emacs only searches the last (formfeed-separated) page
of the buffer for the local variables section. If there are no page
separators, it only searches the final 3000 characters. See
hack-local-variables in lisp/files.el.
> I would consider that as almost a bug.
Almost :-) I suggest that the 3000 character limit is too generous,
and that 1024 ought to be plenty.
> If the main text contains the string "local variables:" (which might
> be in a comment of some computer program) then emacs misinterprets
> this as the beginning of the in-file declaration of the buffer-local
> variables. This, almost certainly induces the error
>
> File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the prefix")
If that occurs, you can avoid it by introducing a final empty page. But
this workaround is only available if the program (or data) file format
allows it.
> There are some cries for help about this error in the WWW. Maybe,
> those are due to this buggy behaviour.
References?
> I think text files should be searched for "local variables:" from
> bottom up. Then, one can avoid the above error message by inserting an
> empty local-variables block at the end of the text file.
A "\n\f" (newline-formfeed) sequence is all that is needed -- or 3000
whitespace characters :-)
> The only problem left would be some variable setting containing the
> string "local variables:".
It's only a problem if that string occurs near the end of the buffer,
which can usually be worked around.
> But in most cases those settings can be done in the first line of the
> text file with the help of the -*-...-*- syntax.
I thought you were talking about occurrences of "local variables:" in
the buffer that should not be parsed by Emacs?
--
Kevin Rodgers
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