Re: local var evaluation order

[Richard M. Stallman]

    does not fontify, whereas w/ older emacs versions it does.
    it also does not fontify after reversing the order of the
    `mode:' and `outline-regexp:' lines.  if i set-default the
    value of `outline-regexp', however, it fontifies.

This is a different problem.  Please try this fix.

*** files.el    10 Aug 2005 13:47:46 -0400      1.784
--- files.el    17 Aug 2005 19:19:23 -0400      
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*** 1733,1738 ****
--- 1733,1744 ----
        (set-auto-mode))
      (report-errors "File local-variables error: %s"
        (hack-local-variables)))
+   ;; Turn font lock off and on, to make sure it takes account of
+   ;; whatever local variables are relevant to it.
+   (when (and font-lock-mode (eq (car font-lock-keywords) t))
+     (setq font-lock-keywords (cadr font-lock-keywords))
+     (font-lock-mode 1))
+ 
    (if (fboundp 'ucs-set-table-for-input) ; don't lose when building
        (ucs-set-table-for-input)))