From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ? Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:08:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r1y0apzm.fsf@secretsauce.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="16050"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dima@secretsauce.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Steve Youngs Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 15 04:09:25 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jDJeX-00043h-Do for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:09:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50456 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jDJeW-0004TA-EQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jDJdq-0003zr-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47367) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jDJdp-0008C3-UG; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jDJdp-0003tT-44; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:08:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Steve Youngs on Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:54:04 +1000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245520 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)