On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 9:46 AM Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 20/12/2024 04:37, Joseph Turner wrote: > > Max Nikulin writes: > >> Have you tried to create a comment block below? > >> > >> #+begin_comment > >> Deactivate local variables above in the example block: > >> Local Variables: > >> End: > >> #+end_comment > > > > In my testing, in order to make Emacs ignore the `foo: bar' binding, the > > empty Local Variables list actually needs to go first. > > Then it is more fragile in the case of complex documents, but still may > be viable for simple ones with single example. > > > Splitting the example into two parts results in "File mode specification > > error: (user-error Local variables entry is missing the prefix) " upon > > opening the file. > > I expected that the code looking up for local variables is reasonably shy. > > > You can test with this: > > #+BEGIN_SRC org > > # Local Variables: > > #+END_SRC > > > > #+BEGIN_SRC org > > # org-srs-review-new-items-per-day: 30 > > # org-srs-review-max-reviews-per-day: 100 > > # End: > > #+END_SRC > > Unfortunately > > : # Local Variables: > #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE > # org-srs-review-new-items-per-day: 30 > # org-srs-review-max-reviews-per-day: 100 > # End: > #+END_EXAMPLE > > Causes a warning as well: > "Local variables list is not properly terminated" > > >> (info "(emacs) Specifying File Variables") > > > > By the way, is there a built-in command to copy that (info ...) sexp > > when viewing that info page? > > A short answer "C-0 c" or "C-0 w". Maybe I will send a longer one, > dropping bohonghuang from Cc. > > >> <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html> > > > > Thanks, I just re-read that page more carefully, and I see this: > > > > If some unrelated text might look to Emacs as a local variables > > list, you can countermand that by inserting a form-feed character (a > > page delimiter, *note Pages::) after that text. Emacs only looks for > > file-local variables in the last page of a file, after the last page > > delimiter. > > I do not like non-printable characters. E.g. Thunderbird rendered your > message with confusingly large vertical space in the middle. Outside of > Emacs, kludges like ";;; org.el ends here" are not common. I would not > be surprised by some issues on attempt to edit the README.org file on > the GitHub site directly.
If I do something like #+begin_comment Local Variables: End: #+end_comment #+begin_src Local Variables: foo: 40 End: #+end_src Then the variable is not set, as Emacs does not look for a Local Variables list more than once. Regards, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou
