From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File local variable name containing colon?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:37:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3t6zdp1.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i523m0$7th$1@dough.gmane.org> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:46:09 -0600")
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
> Dan Davison wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I would try this:
>
> # Local Variables:
> # var\:name: value
> # End:
Hi Kevin,
Yes, I did try that before posting. But it results in
File local-variables error: (end-of-file)
I also tried surrounding in double quotes "var:name", which results in
the same error.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-25 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-24 15:31 File local variable name containing colon? Dan Davison
2010-08-25 3:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-08-25 19:37 ` Dan Davison [this message]
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2010-08-25 21:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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