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29.1; File-local variable storage for strings with newlines

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Message #19 received at 68692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 68692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#68692: 29.1; File-local variable storage for strings with
 newlines
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:16:44 +0200

> From: Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 68692-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:49:51 -0800
> 
> > We have add-file-local-variable and modify-file-local-variable -- did
> > you try any of them?  If they don't handle this case, we need to fix
> > them so they do.
> 
> Yes, I tried both, and they don't handle this case correctly. (My
> original bug report used add-file-local-variable in the reproduction
> instructions.)
> 
> Should this be filed as a bug, or should I email emacs-devel about this?

Please file a separate bug report with a recipe to reproduce the
problem, i.e. a recipe that shows how these functions fail to
update/add a variable whose value has an embedded newline.

Thanks.

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