From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Karthik <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com>
Cc: 68743@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68743: 29.1; modify-file-local-variable does not handle variables with embedded newlines in their value
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:05:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fryj4xgb.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v87fj0rv.fsf@gmail.com> (Karthik's message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:30:12 -0800")
On Jan 26 2024, Karthik wrote:
> This is not the format specified in the Emacs manual. It should look
> like
>
> Some text
>
> ;; Local Variables:
> ;; testvar: "Data on\
> two lines"
> ;; End:
That's still not correct: the third line lacks the prefix, and a
backslash-newline pair is ignored, not producing a newline. Only
printing the newline as "\n" will work.
;; Local Variables:
;; testvar: "Data on\ntwo lines"
;; End:
--
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2024-01-26 20:30 bug#68743: 29.1; modify-file-local-variable does not handle variables with embedded newlines in their value Karthik
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