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Re: Behaviour of add-file-local-variable?


From: Nix
Subject: Re: Behaviour of add-file-local-variable?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:01:10 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On 20 Oct 2011, Stefan Monnier stated:
> I think that add-file-local-variable could simply check if the
> variable's value is already the new one and if not output a message
> along the lines "Done; revisit the file to make it take effect" (tho
> "take effect" doesn't sound right: please native speakers fix it for
> me).

Your instincts mislead you: it's right. Perhaps a more explicit "Revisit
file to make this change take effect" would be better? (But that's
style, not grammar.)

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