From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Local variables not being defined Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:25:23 +0100 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169757704 29233 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2007 20:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:41:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 21:41:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HABPO-00076G-QF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:41:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HABPO-0004sr-9U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:41:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!217.145.39.3.MISMATCH!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!news.banetele.no!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1169756564 26068 129.241.15.140 (25 Jan 2007 20:22:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:22:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mRnpJg4/Q2KIJ429QK4nWQTYMiQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145048 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40651 Archived-At: + ken : | File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the | prefix") | | So what does this error message mean and/or what should I do about it? See the info file about file variables: Every line of the Variables section must have the exact same prefix, which may be empty. This appears to be the case with your example. Or did some lines have initial spaces or tabs that your news posting software suppressed? If so, get rid of them. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell