Re: how to reference the current *.el file in elisp

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <878wjd1926.fsf@jidanni.org>, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> BM> (message "Hello %s" load-file-name)
> How do I do things like
> # Local Variables:
> # mode: Shell-script
> # compile-command: (concat "sh " buffer-file-name)
> # End:
> without being asked about risky variables, or hard wiring buffer-file-name?

Why don't you just create a shell-script-mode hook that sets 
compile-command?  This seems like a mode-specific setting, not a 
file-specific setting.

But if you want to customize risky local variables, see the 
safe-local-variables-p function.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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