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francois.fleuret@noos.fr (François Fleuret) writes:

> Yes, but the flag appears in the modeline whatever the buffer is. I
> still could not decide if this was a bad or a good thing. Let me think
> about it a few more days :)

You could omit the flag if off.  (That's what Emacs does for the
other flags.)

Or you turn it into a three-way thing with values on, off, unset.
Then you can set the default value of the buffer-local variable to be
unset.

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