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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-12-19 12:37:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-12-19 12:37:49 +0200 |
| commit | 3323ee7ad0fd0edcd88d9f436610a4cf85b1892c (patch) | |
| tree | d4546f4fdc7bcad22535e305220380f561a4119a | |
| parent | f236e278053bb1b44a1b92e0649ef3ae73f709be (diff) | |
Document how to avoid file-local variables that aren't
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Specifying File Variables): Describe how
to prevent Emacs from interpreting unrelated text as file-local
variables. (Bug#22166)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/custom.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi index 30e040195e..fc405e3a14 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi @@ -1133,6 +1133,12 @@ won't confuse other programs that the file is intended for. The example above is for the C programming language, where comments start with @samp{/*} and end with @samp{*/}. +If some unrelated text might look to Emacs as a local variables list, +you can countermand that by inserting a form-feed character (a page +delimiter, @pxref{Pages}) after that text. Emacs only looks for +file-local variables in the last page of a file, after the last page +delimiter. + @findex add-file-local-variable @findex delete-file-local-variable @findex copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals |