Subject: Re: bug#55865: [BUG] 28.1.50; Msg "Local variables list is not properly terminated." displayed when opening a file with line `print("Local Variable:")`

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:56:09 +0200

Lin Sun <[email-masked]> writes:

> Create a file /tmp/test.sh with one line:
>
> print("Local Variables:")
>
> Then open this test.sh file with emacs, a message appeared in the
> *Message* buffer:
>
>>Local variables list is not properly terminated.
>
> The message produced by function `hack-local-variables--find-variables`.
>
> Please help to check it. Thanks

I don't think there's anything to fix here -- Emacs makes a guess that
this is a Local Variable section, but then it turns out that it's not,
and it says so.

So if you don't want that message, you have to obfuscate the string.

Closing this bug report.

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