From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Andrea Rossetti <andrea.rossetti@gmail.com>, 24415@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24415: 24.4; issue with big file variable
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:07:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmzt1d1t.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8fd1f4n.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (npostavs's message of "Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:23:04 -0400")
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:23:04 -0400 npostavs@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>>
>> It's a hard limit in hack-local-variables:
>>
>> ;; Look for "Local variables:" line in last page.
>> (save-excursion
>> (goto-char (point-max))
>> (search-backward "\n\^L" (max (- (point-max) 3000) (point-min))
>> 'move)
>>
>> I don't know how well-known this is; AFAICT it's not documented.
>
> It's documented in the manual, (emacs) Specifying File Variables
>
> Apart from using a `-*-' line, you can define file local variables
> using a "local variables list" near the end of the file. The start of
> the local variables list should be no more than 3000 characters from
> the end of the file, and must be on the last page if the file is
> divided into pages.
Mea culpa; I looked there before posting but obviously not closely
enough.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-11 21:52 bug#24415: 24.4; issue with big file variable Andrea Rossetti
2016-09-12 8:45 ` Stephen Berman
2016-09-12 12:23 ` npostavs
2016-09-12 13:07 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2019-09-16 3:21 ` Stefan Kangas
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