Subject: bug#24415: 24.4; issue with big file variable

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:07:58 +0200

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:23:04 -0400 [email-masked] wrote:

> Stephen Berman <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>
>> It's a hard limit in hack-local-variables:
>>
>> 	;; Look for "Local variables:" line in last page.
>> 	(save-excursion
>> 	  (goto-char (point-max))
>> 	  (search-backward "\n\^L" (max (- (point-max) 3000) (point-min))
>> 			   'move)
>>
>> I don't know how well-known this is; AFAICT it's not documented.
>
> It's documented in the manual, (emacs) Specifying File Variables
>
>        Apart from using a `-*-' line, you can define file local variables
>     using a "local variables list" near the end of the file.  The start of
>     the local variables list should be no more than 3000 characters from
>     the end of the file, and must be on the last page if the file is
>     divided into pages.

Mea culpa; I looked there before posting but obviously not closely
enough.

Steve Berman