Subject: bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon

From: jari <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:18:43 +0200

On 2015-02-11 10:26, Nicolas Richard wrote:
| Jari Aalto <[email-masked]> writes:
| 
| > ;; Local Variables:
| > ;; mode: text ;
| > ;; comment-start: ;
| > ;; End:
| 
| it seems to me this should be written as
| 
| ;; Local Variables:
| ;; mode: text
| ;; comment-start: ";"
| ;; End:

Please document this in

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables

as semicolon seems to be a special case.

Jari