Subject: Re: bug#23827: 25.1.50; tab-width file-local variable has no effect in etc/HELLO

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:17:04 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:12:10 -0400
> 
> I tend to agree that it "looks right", so we should probably just
> install it into master and see what breaks.  My only real worry is
> whether that would end up calling fundamental-mode when creating
> temporary buffers such as in `with-temp-buffer' (where we wouldn't want
> to run-mode-hooks and hack-local-variables).

So you suggest to have a variable whose value could bypass calling
fundamental-mode, and bind that variable inside with-temp-buffer and
such likes?

Is there another alternative?

Thanks.