Jerry> Warning: Error in File local-variables: Local variables Jerry> entry is missing the prefix I hate these crufty butt-ugly hacks! Jerry> We ought to have some way of turning off local variables Jerry> processing for the rare occasions like this where the magic Jerry> string does not indicate actual local variables. I believe we do: the error terminates the attempt to process local variables. This is (apparently) good enough for GNU Emacs work, but what *we* should do is verify that the local variables section is lexically valid, and only then parse it. Also I think we should disable local variables processing entirely in -batch mode. Anything that needs to be set can and should be set in an -eval from the command line. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.