Local variables string

Re: the previous message, lots of backtraces are being printed because of outline-minor-mode; it appears to be used quite extensively. While generating autoloads for xemacs-packages/hyperbole/hlvar.el, this happens: Warning: Error in File local-variables: Local variables entry is missing the prefix followed by a backtrace. That is due to the following comment in that file: ;; Look for "Local variables:" line in last page. Even if we change the comment, I predict the same error will occur due to this line of code further down: (and (search-forward "Local Variables:" nil t) We ought to have some way of turning off local variables processing for the rare occasions like this where the magic string does not indicate actual local variables. Perhaps the number of non-whitespace preceding characters could be used. I don't think I've ever seen more than 3. -- Jerry James http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/