Eric: Thanks - but for the moment I will go with Jambunathan's suggestion
and stick with the latest version before the removal of BABEL.

For the record, I created a local branch before the removal of BABEL and
used

git checkout MyBranch

to switch to this branch. So I can keep my local git repo up-to-date and
switch back to master if I want to.
Cheers,

Rainer


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Rainer - if he feels uncomfortable - can choose *not* to update his git
> repo and switch his local checkout to a historical version.
>
> > [1]  to see the info page evaluate (info "(elisp)File Local
> > Variables")
>
> A usage note for adding these variables without straining the brain.
>
> M-x add-file-local-variable RET
> M-x add-file-local-variable-prop-line RET
>
> These commands are documented here.
> (info "(emacs) Specifying File Variables")
> --
>



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