Jean Louis writes: >> The start of the local variables list should be no more than 3000 >> > characters from the end of the file >> >> >> Given the length of the email, I guess this is why Emacs saw the variables >> as being within the correct range. > > Yes thank you. I was thinking Emacs will do that only in files where > it recognizes some comments or no comments and that variables need > to be pretty down in the file, on the bottom. Now I learn it is not > so. > > That is security issue. Why is it a security issue? The variables do need to be close to the end — 3000 characters is only about 50 lines. Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken