bug#16846: acknowledged by developer ()

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 24.02.2014 17:06, schrieb Nicolas Richard:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> > Am 24.02.2014 14:41, schrieb Nicolas Richard:
> > > and in particular why you did not add comment syntax (i.e. semi
> > > colons) at the beginning of it. What doc did you read that lead you to
> > > write that ?
> >
> > I'm referring to:
> >
> > 48.2.4.1 Specifying File Variables
>
> That part of the doc doesn't say that you shouldn't write anything else
> on that line.

It formulates a general example which isn't general. It's misleading.

A better start would be the Emacs Lisp example below, followed by a hint WRT to 
plain text-modes.