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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: File local variable name containing colon?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:31:25 -0400
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This is valid elisp:

(setq var:name 'value)

But this doesn't work because the colon causes confusion:

# Local Variables:
# var:name: value
# End:

Any way round this?

Dan