GNU bug report logs - #19834
Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:34:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jari <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>
To: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 19834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:18:43 +0200

On 2015-02-11 10:26, Nicolas Richard wrote:
| Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net> 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
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