Re: local variables can cause infloops
Steve Youngs <sryoungs(a)bigpond.net.au> writes:
If I try to reproduce the bug in 'xemacs -vanilla', I
can't. :-( But,
if I kill the buffer and then re-visit the file, I get:
(1) (local-variables/warning) File local-variables error: Local
variables entry is missing the prefix
So there _is_ a problem, just not the exact one that I reported. :-P
In this case, the problem is that you used the string "Local
Variables:" *twice* near the end of the buffer. In your example:
;; and a Local Variables: example
If my edebug-assisted analysis is correct, the code is fooled by that
line and sets PREFIX to ";; and a ". Since the following line does
not begin with that ";; and a", a warning is printed. I'm not really
sure if that should be considered a bug.
I'm curious as to what causes your infloop.