Recently I ran into the problem when Emacs tried to interpret the
Local Variables section in the "htmlized" file. I suggested to the
author of htmlize.el to replace `Local Variables:' in the output by
its HTML equivalent `Local Variables:' that Emacs doesn't recognize.
This method, to change the program that produces the file,
is applicable in some cases. But I don't think it is applicable to diff.
With a new special variable HTML mode could set it to a value that
matches the Local Variables section only inside HTML comments, and such
problems of mistakenly using a Local Variables section wouldn't occur
in packages that convert files to other representations.
Yes, that could work--if the variable gets set before Emacs looks for
the local variable list. However, I am not sure a regexp is powerful enough
to do the job for diff files.
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