bug#24848: 24.5; "Local rules set"

[richard.wiseman]

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I tried to send this earlier but I think it failed.  I got no confirmation of it sending anyway, so here's essentially the same thing again...

I've been using sh-mode to edit bash scripts, but I noticed that the indent after a "then" was twice what it should be (and twice what it is after an "else").  I googled and discovered that I can run "sh-learn-buffer-indent" to learn the indentation that I want; this prompted me of a shortcut "C-c >" which I've then been using.

It works perfectly!

But it only applies to the current session and all the "C-c >" command says when complete is "Local rules set".  It doesn't say what those rules are or how to make them permanent.  It doesn't even say what it means by "rules" actually.  I put a question on StackOverflow and was recommended to submit a bug report, hence this email.

So could the "Local rules set" message be changed to include instructions on how to make the changes permanent please?

Thanks,

Richard

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)

 of 2016-04-17 on lgw01-04, modified by Debian

Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000

System Description: Linux Mint 18 Sarah

Configured using:

 `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr

 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib

 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info

 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes

 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp

 --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib

 --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib

 --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes

 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp

 --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars

 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat

 -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time

 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro''

Important settings:

  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8

  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Shell-script

Minor modes in effect:

  sh-electric-here-document-mode: t

  delete-selection-mode: t

  show-paren-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:

C-x M-i is undefined

byte-code: End of buffer [4 times]

byte-code: Beginning of buffer [16 times]

Load-path shadows:

/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp/sgml-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/sgml-mode

/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp/php-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/php-mode

/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup

/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/cmake-data/cmake-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode

/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp/sgml-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode

/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp/sh-script hides /usr/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/progmodes/sh-script

Features:

(mailalias mailclient browse-url shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr

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easymenu tabify sh-script smie executable web-mode advice help-fns

disp-table edmacro kmacro cl-loaddefs cl-lib sgml-mode delsel paren

cus-start cus-load time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook

vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image

regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register

page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock

font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang

misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew

greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese

case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice

loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay

sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget

hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind

gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting

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Memory information:

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