Subject: bug#20640: 24.5; lexical-binding should work like a normal file-local variable

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:56:46 -0400

> I don't think this is a misdesign. In most cases files are either seekable
> or small enough so that reading the variables from the end is tolerable. I
> prefer the end of files for local variables because they tend to be less
> important than the actual content.

I'm not talking about file-local variables in general.  I'm talking
about the "coding:" pseudo-variable.

        Stefan