Re: "Local variables list is not properly terminated"

[Johan Bockgård]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>> ;; Declaring and initializing local variables:
>
>> -- Declaring and initializing local variables:
>
> These lines are problematic.  You should remove the colons, at least,
> otherwise Emacs will consider them as start of the local variables
> section and search for its end.

Or insert a ^L.

    The start of the local variables list must be no more than 3000
    characters from the end of the file, and must be in the last page
    if the file is divided into pages. Otherwise, Emacs will not
    notice it is there. The purpose of this rule is so that a stray
    `Local Variables:' not in the last page does not confuse Emacs,
    and so that visiting a long file that is all one page and has no
    local variables list need not take the time to search the whole
    file.

(info "(emacs)Specifying File Variables")

-- 
Johan Bockgård