This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.2 (beta19) "Sneaky Bastard 19991102" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux, Mule) of Fri Nov 5 1999 on ulysses.jprc.com configured using `configure --prefix=/home/xemacs/debug --with-png --with-mule' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: When (1) I start XEmacs with the -vanilla switch, (2) I'm running under X with gutters visible, (3) I set enable-local-variables to 'ask, and (4) I type C-x C-f /tmp/foo.el where the entire contents of /tmp/foo.el is: -----cut----- ;; Local Variables: *** ;; foo: bar *** ;; End: *** -----cut----- XEmacs gives the warning: (1) (local-variables/warning) File local-variables error: Missing colon in local variables entry and does not set the local variable foo. If I turn off the gutters, or run in TTY mode, or leave enable-local-variables set to t, the local-variable section behaves normally, i.e., foo gets set to bar. Recent keystrokes: M-( e DEL s e t q SPC e n a b l e - l o c a l - v a r i a b l e s SPC ' a s k right C-j C-x C-f / t m p / f o o . e l RET y M-: f o o RET M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b TAB RET Recent messages (most recent first): Loading mail-abbrevs...done Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading emacsbug...done Loading emacsbug... Symbol's value as variable is void: foo Set local variables as specified at end of foo.el? (y or n) Yes Set local variables as specified at end of foo.el? (y or n) Loading efs-cu...done Loading efs-cu...