GNU bug report logs - #13862
24.3.50; File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the prefix")

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:16:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
To: 13862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13862: closed (Re: bug#13862: 24.3.50; File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the prefix"))
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:28:52 +0530

help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) writes:

>> Is there are any local variables in the patch?  There isn't any.  So why
>> should we inhibit something that is not there.
>
> Inhibit to prevent a false detection, exactly as in this case.
>
>> If `diff-mode' has no comment syntax defined, then by extension, it
>> cannot specify file local variables.
>
> Err, you can specify file local variables without a prefix. Eg
> etc/NEWS.

Seems to me that it is worth re-visiting the above decision.  Closing
the bug will only suppress further arguments surrounding this bug.
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