From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ? Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r1y0apzm.fsf@secretsauce.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="91198"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dima Kogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 10 22:48:54 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 1jBmkA-000NcY-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:48:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jBmk9-0002Tv-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:48:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56564) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jBmbS-0005cs-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jBmbR-0008TW-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:22166) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jBmbR-0008T9-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:53 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 41CD010247E; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 31E1E1003B1; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:51 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1583876391; bh=FxTBWuVcuSKAM+fjGN6Ftlp/zIMNW2o53KKrvFXvQqE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=UzYgJBS7dUTw2lI7iKCqU+j/LGpGR/SC8ziRH3m/vIEGBnKCFL84pgzE8QXwxwT9i 3nMOML7dbtU1H3iDgAM5zkb8awnVN1r+oM7A/uAYAdFOO8ex22fRdAqt5sq4YUMKnm HUxdskZK6lSrSevgMDRByeLAWWAOXWlZxwKrt/6Pfsu4JBItydDVEzY27E4oBmHZeh VFgbkfdsTgRpLDHBsqbeWvxBSloBSqM28sm8ptHN5uvhdJ4akaQ/d6LL6rER9BQb8d p+gaHnATOtJgcnG5h/16/6d/nuCU9MBgUgsvGnMQFowA+zVC+KsNqr6nkEagpmNJ6q 9/A9kUV5x6AdQ== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.50.221]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BE891120531; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87r1y0apzm.fsf@secretsauce.net> (Dima Kogan's message of "Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:56:13 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 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:245459 Archived-At: > Probably we'd want to make this into a variable? And the default maybe > should be higher than 3000? I don't like having this 3000 hard-coded everywhere, so making a variable makes sense. But encouraging large "Local Variables" blocks is a bad idea, IMO, so I'd keep it at 3000 and I wouldn't care to document the var either. I'd even be happy with a "--" in its name. > The use case where I hit this was in an .org file that was defining a > presentation where I needed to control the export with an eval: (progn > ...) block. Org wasn't doing quite what I needed it to, so the block had > some advice definitions in it, and that pushed the thing over the 3000 > byte limit. Of course, you can use a short eval: (progn (re-search-backward "^(progn ;;local-config") (eval (read (current-buffer)))) and then put an arbitrarily long Elisp chunk anywhere else in the buffer with a leading `(progn ;;local-config`. Stefan