Re: Reparsing local variables without reopening file?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Thomas F. Burdick wrote:

> Come to think of it, that would be a nice thing to have as a command,
> wouldn't it?  But hack-local-variables is the function that gets
> called when you find-file a file, so you can just put this in your
> .emacs:
>
>   (defun my-reparse-local-variables ()
>      (interactive)
>      (hack-local-variables))
>
>   (global-set-key ... #'my-reparse-local-varaibles)

Or you can advise the original definition and bind a key to that (or
call it via M-x), instead of creating a new function:

(defadvice hack-local-variables (before interactive activate)
 "Provide an `interactive' specification."
 (interactive))


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