bug#9044: 24.0.50; File mode specification error: (error "Malformed -*- line")

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> (2) changing hack-local-variables-prop-line to return nil instead of
> signalling an error for the "Malformed mode line" case.
>
> Does anyone see a problem with this approach (in particular (2))?

Sounds good to me.  Not being able to examine a file just because of
spurious text in the file isn't very nice.

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