Subject: bug#10608: local-enable-local-variables

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:32:59 +0100

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> local-enable-local-variables - a strange variable. AFAICS (see my
> comments in files.el), its only real use is as a minor convenience
> feature for visiting RMAIL BABYL files with M-x find-file. Should it be
> declared obsolete? Should it affect directory-local variables (it
> currently does, I think)?

It's also used in arc-mode and tar-mode now, so the usage has increased
by an incredible 200%!

I have no opinion whether it should be obsoleted, though, but...
perhaps not?  Opinions?

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