> I don't think this is a misdesign. In=
most cases files are either seekable
> or small enough so that reading the variables from the end is tolerabl=
e. I
> prefer the end of files for local variables because they tend to be le=
ss
> important than the actual content.
I'm not talking about file-local variables in general.=C2=A0 I'm ta=
lking
about the "coding:" pseudo-variable.
No matter how we c=
hoose to call it: My argument stands, reading such pseudo-variables from th=
e end of the file is desirable, useful, and has negligible disadvantages. O=
r do we have evidence that users routinely read very large (gigabyte-sized)=
Elisp files from non-seekable sources?=C2=A0