GNU bug report logs - #15820
24.3.50; (elisp) `File Local Variables'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 17:11:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 15820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15820: 24.3.50; (elisp) `File Local Variables'
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:01:01 -0500

Drew Adams wrote:

> This part of the text is unclear:
>
>   When defining a user option using `defcustom', you can set its
>   `safe-local-variable' property by adding the arguments `:safe FUNCTION'
>   to `defcustom'
>
> FUNCTION needs to be described here.  Just say that FUNCTION is the same
> as the function used as the value of property `safe-local-variable'.

It is explained in the immediately previous paragraph.
Repeating it seems unnecessarily verbose, and we all hate unnecessary
verbosity, don't we?
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