On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:39:40AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, I would conclude, that there is no bug at all. Emacs can't > > possibly know, that the "Local Variables:" block isn't meant to be > > interpreted in the diff file. =20 > > > > Hmm. It still feels like a bug to me, and I want to find a way to fix > > it. > > When Emacs is running diff itself, it could start the output off with > an appropriate -*- type string overriding a possible local variables > block.
I like that idea. To make it work the behavior of emacs would have to be changed so that a -*- line takes precedence over following local variables lists, which isn't the case at the moment. cheers sascha -- "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee, July 1996
pgpq60ngiJpNM.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
