From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Behaviour of add-file-local-variable?
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:01:10 +0100 (5 hours, 5 minutes, 8 seconds ago)
Message-ID: <87y5wfmcvt.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>

On 20 Oct 2011, Stefan Monnier stated:
> 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).

Your instincts mislead you: it's right. Perhaps a more explicit "Revisit
file to make this change take effect" would be better? (But that's
style, not grammar.)

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