From 3323ee7ad0fd0edcd88d9f436610a4cf85b1892c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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
--
2.39.5