GNU bug report logs - #36837
26.2; whitespace-mode: whitespace-line-column is not set to local fill-column

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: tastytea <tastytea <at> tastytea.de>

Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tastytea <tastytea <at> tastytea.de>, 36837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36837: 26.2; whitespace-mode: whitespace-line-column is not set to local fill-column
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:15:07 +0200

On Aug 02 2019, Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:04:35 +0200
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> On Aug 02 2019, Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, unfortunately, file-local variables are only setup (via
>>> `hack-local-variables') _after_ the mode hooks are run (cf.
>>> `run-mode-hooks'), so `whitespace-color-on' still sees the original
>>> `fill-column' the first time.
>>>
>>> Intuitively this order seems backwards to me, but I assume there must be
>>> a (good?) reason? I'd like to hear it, in any case.
>>
>> I'd guess the reason is that file local variables should override mode
>> stettings.
>
> Sure, but isn't that precisely an argument for the reverse order?

No.  File local variables should have the last say.

Andreas.

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