Subject: bug#45864: 27.1; hack-local-variables-hook is not documented in Emacs Manual

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:47:08 +0100

Howard Melman <[email-masked]> writes:

>>  I found out about this hook and it seems to be
>> exactly what I want, it lets me override the file local variables set
>> in the file.  Is there another way to do this?  If not, can this hook
>> be exposed to users for this purpose?

Users are free to use whatever parts of Emacs they want, so there's
nothing much to expose.  Things that we don't expect users to commonly
want to hack around with (because things are a bit more complicated) are
not documented in the Emacs manual, but in the Emacs Lisp manual.

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