GNU bug report logs - #9044
24.0.50; File mode specification error: (error "Malformed -*- line")

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>

Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:37:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 9044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 9044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9044: 24.0.50;
	File mode specification error: (error "Malformed -*- line")
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:01:27 -0400

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> It's obviously just one, none of the 20 others I just checked:
[...]
> In GNU Emacs 23.3 I get, when typing v on the file in dired:
>
> 	Type C-c C-c to view the image as text.
> 	File local-variables error: (error "Malformed -*- line")


Yes; it has no relation to imagemagick and occurs in 23.3 too. The tiff
file is a single line and happens to contain "-*-" at one point. Emacs
tries to parse this as a file local variables section and fails, so it
complains. It's just a harmless message that you can ignore, it does not
affect anything. I'm not sure that it's worth trying to do anything
about this.
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