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bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#48030: 28.0.50; syntax evaluation in strings
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:20:09 +0000



defining a function:
(defun xxx-insert()
"anything"
(interactive)
(insert "# Local Variables:\n")
(insert "# mode: org\n")
(insert "# End:\n")
)

will cause Emacs to disregard the Emacs-lisp-mode after re-opening the file, hence no syntax evaluation anymore Changing (insert "# Local Variables:\n") to (insert "# Local Bariables:\n") will 'solve' the problem.


Thanks for your bug report. As far as I can see, this is not a bug, when enable-local-variables is t (the default), Emacs searches for the the string "Local Variables" string near the end of the buffer, and interprets what follows as file-local variable settings.

This is not what you want if "Local Variables" is inside a literal string, but detecting that specific case would be cumbersome I think. I would suggest that you replace (insert "# Local Variables:\n") by (insert "# Local " "Variables:\n"), with two additional quotation marks between Local and Variables.





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