Re: Keep/drop emacs variables in documentation sources?

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:23:51 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.text.docutils.devel
Message-ID	<20240424192351.rtbpjzpz5rf5mlaq@illithid>

At 2024-04-24T19:06:23-0000, Guenter Milde via Docutils-develop wrote:
> So my question is:
> 
> * Do we want to keep the emacs variables block?
>   Is anyone using emacs?

I tend to use Vim, but occasionally use emacs.

> * If yes, do we need the FORM FEED character
>   (it shows as ^L in my text editor).

As far as I know, this is not necessary.  As I recollect, GNU Emacs
scans backward through the last 3,000 bytes of the file attempting to
match the "Local variables:" pattern; the lack of a form feed character
before that text does not frustrate the search.

Try out the attached file.

Regards,
Branden

sample-emacs.txt (text/plain, 145 B)

This is emphatically not a C++ source file.

...and yet, we can make GNU Emacs treat it as one.

Local Variables:
fill-column: 72
mode: C++
End:

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