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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Behaviour of add-file-local-variable?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:13:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvty73hkof.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81fwioqomn.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:51:36 +0530")

> Even if you insist on retaining the existing behaviour, at the minimum I
> need some warning that the local variable has not kicked in. This could
> be handled by

I think that add-file-local-variable could simply check if the
variable's value is already the new one and if not output a message
along the lines "Done; revisit the file to make it take effect" (tho
"take effect" doesn't sound right: please native speakers fix it for
me).


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19  8:57 Behaviour of add-file-local-variable? Jambunathan K
2011-10-19  9:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-20  4:21   ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-20 13:13     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-10-21  0:01       ` Nix

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