From 3323ee7ad0fd0edcd88d9f436610a4cf85b1892c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 12:37:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document how to avoid file-local variables that aren't * doc/emacs/custom.texi (Specifying File Variables): Describe how to prevent Emacs from interpreting unrelated text as file-local variables. (Bug#22166) --- doc/emacs/custom.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi index 30e040195e8..fc405e3a147 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi @@ -1133,6 +1133,12 @@ won't confuse other programs that the file is intended for. The example above is for the C programming language, where comments start with @samp{/*} and end with @samp{*/}. +If some unrelated text might look to Emacs as a local variables list, +you can countermand that by inserting a form-feed character (a page +delimiter, @pxref{Pages}) after that text. Emacs only looks for +file-local variables in the last page of a file, after the last page +delimiter. + @findex add-file-local-variable @findex delete-file-local-variable @findex copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals -- 2.39.2