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: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:20:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r1y0apzm.fsf@secretsauce.net> <87h7ygoulz.fsf@dima.secretsauce.net> <83sghzb1f9.fsf@gnu.org> 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="51492"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dima@secretsauce.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 24 03:21:25 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 1jGZC1-000DHh-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2020 03:21:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41702 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jGZC0-0000ZJ-Ba for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:21:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jGZBT-0008MU-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jGZBS-0002KJ-Vm; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jGZBR-0004xd-87; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:20:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:28:49 +0100) 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:245744 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. ]]] I think there IS a safe way to allow other locations of the local variable list. Namely, to put something in the local variable list which says to search further back for another additional local variable list. -- 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)