From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Local variables not being defined Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:29 -0500 Message-ID: <45B924F9.4040600@speakeasy.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169761575 11131 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2007 21:46:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 22:46:04 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 1HACQ0-000119-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:46:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HACQ0-000695-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:46:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HACPo-00068y-3P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HACPl-00068m-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HACPl-00068j-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.3]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HACPl-0005C8-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:49 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 14000 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2007 21:45:46 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Jan 2007 21:45:46 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 OpenPGP: id=45796D04 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:40655 Archived-At: On 01/25/2007 03:25 PM somebody named Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + ken : > > | File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the > | prefix") > | > | So what does this error message mean and/or what should I do about it? > > See the info file about file variables: Every line of the Variables > section must have the exact same prefix, which may be empty. This > appears to be the case with your example. Or did some lines have > initial spaces or tabs that your news posting software suppressed? > If so, get rid of them. > That can't be the problem as the "prefix" is and has always been the same for all lines-- nothing at all. I.e., all lines start to the far left... in the very first column. Again: