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image-mode and require-final-newline

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Message #97 received at 8047 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 8047 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8047: 23.2.94; Auto image mode breaks C-x C-w
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:38:32 -0500

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,  8047 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:34:43 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> You would need to make it buffer-local.
> >
> > ??? It's permanently local already, see its doc string.
> 
> If you test your proposed patch, you will find it sets the global value.

I tested it, just not deep enough ;-)

> It is permanently local, *once made buffer local*.

Turns out I had a fundamental misunderstanding of what "permanently
local" means.  The fact that the Elisp manual is silent about that
does not help.  Is there something beyond the fact that
kill-all-local-variables doesn't touch them, or is that all there is
to it?

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