Re: longish Local Variables in Files

[Richard Stallman]

    Well, give it a whirl, pops. C-x C-w ... C-x C-v M-x compile. You'll
    see that compile will prompt you with a string with the # neatly
    hidden as an argument to the shell's : operator.

I don't know what that operator does.  Would this have done the same job?

# compile-command: "invoke-rc.d chrony restart && sleep 2 && echo '
#' && grep chrony /var/log/syslog|tail -19"


Why didn't you write it as

# compile-command: "invoke-rc.d chrony restart && sleep 2 \
&& grep chrony /var/log/syslog|tail -19"

That seems to work, for me?  Is this because you need a # to comment
out the second line?

How about this?

# compile-command: "invoke-rc.d chrony restart && sleep 2`\
#` && grep chrony /var/log/syslog|tail -19"