Re: enable-local-variables 'maybe

[Richard Stallman]

    Something else is still messing the position of point, i.e., I still
    get the error message:

    "File local-variables error: (error "Missing colon in local variables 
entry")

    When during the call of the function hack-local-variables the point
    is supposed to be at the local variable, it is indeed in the second
    line of the bibtex file foo.bib. Somewhere, a save-excursion is missing. 

Can you step through and find precisely where?  That's the only
way to find and fix the bug.