> I noticed this entry in emacs/etc/TODO: > > ** Add a command to make a local variables list in the current buffer > and/or add a variable to the list. > > I recently wrote a function that does the former, if I understand the > entry correctly. > > No, it is a misunderstanding. A local variables list is text > at the end of the file.
It seems this command should do the same thing as currently `dcl-save-option' and `dcl-save-all-options' from emacs/lisp/progmodes/dcl-mode.el do, but more generally. These commands make a Local Variables section with prefix/suffix strings extracted from `comment-start' and `comment-end'. But the result is not always nice. For example, in Emacs-Lisp mode the value of `comment-start' is ";", but a nicer prefix would be ";;" or ";;;". Perhaps some modes should override this value with a new variable like `local-variables-prefix'. Also the local variables list for `dcl-save-all-options' is not general. A better choice is a list like used by desktop.el to save the values of local variables in the desktop file, i.e. the option `desktop-locals-to-save'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
