Re: Debugging calendar gremlin in emacs 22.0.50.1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.09.2006 um 14:19 schrieb ken:

> Everything's still good.  So then I run "M-x diary" and get this:
>
> The local variables list in diary.emacs
> contains values that may not be safe (*).
>
> Do you really want to apply it?  You can type
> y - to apply the local variables list.
> n - to ignore....
> ! - to apply... and permanently mark these...
>
>   * auto-fill-mode: off
>     fill-column: 999999
>
> The reason for this (I'm guessing) is that I have this at the top of
> ~/diary.emacs:
>
> ;-*- mode: lisp; auto-fill-mode: off; fill-column: 999999 -*-
>
> I hit y and emacs loads what it thinks is the diary.


This has to do with a security feature introduced early this summer:  
safe-local-variable-values. If you answer ``!´´ then the name will be  
recorded in your customisation and you won't be asked again to  
confirm that this local variable is safe. (I had to type ! a few  
times to make coding-system in different contexts a safe local  
variable.)


> ~/diary.emacs contains:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ;-*- mode: lisp; auto-fill-mode: off; fill-column: 999999 -*-

I think the convention is to start such a line with ;;;. Then I think  
it's needed that some space is left between the comment and the  
expression, i.e. the -*- ...; -*- part.

> %%(diary-anniversary 9 18 1970) %d years ago it was 9/18/1970
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 9 19 1911) %d years ago it was 9/19/1911
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 9 20 1934) %d years ago it was 9/20/1934
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 9 20 1885) %d years ago it was 9/20/1885
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 9 20 1878) $d years ago it was 9/20/1878
>
> ;end of ~/diary.emacs

At this semicolon, could be, the set of local variables ends ... thy  
syntax is:

        -*- <some keyword>: <some other keyword>; <potentially other pair>; -*-

You also can put at the end:

;; Local variables:
;; mode: lisp
;; auto-fill-mode: off
;; fill-column: 999999
;; End:


> Next (in this new frame) I do "C-x f ~/diary.emacs RETURN": Nothing
> happens.

This is correct: you set fill-column. (But the other input, i.e.  
``~ / d i a r y . e m a c s´´ and the final RET should do something ...)



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  Pete

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