Re: command for creating local variables in files

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     So for a file-make-local-variable command we need questions like
>
>       Major mode: (default <the current major mode>)
>       ...
>       Variable:
>       foo...
>       Variable foo set to:
>       ...
>
> You are describing a command to set up an entire local variables list.
> That's not what file-make-local-variable should do.  That command
> should add or alter ONE variable in the local variables list; only
> one.  It can read a variable name and the value string in the usual
> way with the minibuffer.

It might be nice if it also accepted major-mode as a variable name,
and minor mode variables, and buffer-file-coding-system and translated
them into the corresponding sequences.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum