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28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings

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From: markusffm <at> fn.de
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:56:04 GMT

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                      defining a function:
(defun xxx-insert()
"anything" 
(interactive)
(insert "# Local Variables:\n")
(insert "# mode: org\n")
(insert "# End:\n")
)
will cause Emacs to disregard the Emacs-lisp-mode after re-opening the file, hence no syntax
evaluation anymore
Changing (insert "# Local Variables:\n") to (insert "# Local Bariables:\n") will 'solve' the problem.
Note: exactly the same behaviour invoking emacs with -Q

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 58, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.28, cairo version 1.16.0)
of 2021-04-26 built on XYZ
Repository revision: 50f29f6a282b7426377be5fb54322fc5b5a487fc
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12011000
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Message #8 received at 48030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: markusffm <at> fn.de
Cc: 48030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:20:09 +0000

> 
> defining a function:
> (defun xxx-insert()
> "anything"
> (interactive)
> (insert "# Local Variables:\n")
> (insert "# mode: org\n")
> (insert "# End:\n")
> )

> will cause Emacs to disregard the Emacs-lisp-mode after re-opening the 
> file, hence no syntax evaluation anymore Changing (insert "# Local 
> Variables:\n") to (insert "# Local Bariables:\n") will 'solve' the 
> problem.
>

Thanks for your bug report.  As far as I can see, this is not a bug, when 
enable-local-variables is t (the default), Emacs searches for the the 
string "Local Variables" string near the end of the buffer, and interprets 
what follows as file-local variable settings.

This is not what you want if "Local Variables" is inside a literal string, 
but detecting that specific case would be cumbersome I think.  I would 
suggest that you replace (insert "# Local Variables:\n") by (insert "# 
Local " "Variables:\n"), with two additional quotation marks between Local 
and Variables.

Message #11 received at 48030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 48030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, markusffm <at> fn.de
Subject: Re: bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 06:10:32 +0200

Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org> writes:

> This is not what you want if "Local Variables" is inside a literal
> string, but detecting that specific case would be cumbersome I think.
> I would suggest that you replace (insert "# Local Variables:\n") by
> (insert "# Local " "Variables:\n"), with two additional quotation
> marks between Local and Variables.

Yup.  So I agree that this isn't a bug, and I'm closing this bug report.

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