From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>
Cc: dima@secretsauce.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ?
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:08:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jDJdp-0003tT-44@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.87zhcjwkg3.fsf@steveyoungs.com> (message from Steve Youngs on Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:54:04 +1000)
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> How about some form of "include" mechanism:
> Local Variables:
> @include: FILENAME
> End:
> I would suggest implementing that with the same care, considerations,
> and restrictions as has `eval' for Locals
Specifying another file has a serious problem: you can't be sure which file
will get included.
Better to refer to something above in the file.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-15 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-10 20:56 Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ? Dima Kogan
2020-03-10 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 23:44 ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-11 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-22 23:08 ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23 8:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 15:28 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 17:03 ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-24 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-12 2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-14 5:54 ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-14 7:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-15 3:08 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-03-15 6:41 ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-16 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-23 15:56 ` Yuri Khan
2020-03-23 16:55 ` Dima Kogan
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