Re: [PATCH] Fix hack-local-variables for find-file-literally with dos encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: tgbugs@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:53:18 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > More importantly, what about selective-display, which replaces
> > newlines with \r's?  I think this replacement is for that use case.
> >
> > So perhaps the condition for the replacement should be
> > selective-display?
> 
> Aha!  The initial revision of files.el had:
> 
> +(defun hack-local-variables (&optional force)
> [...]
> +         ;; Look at next local variable spec.
> +         (if selective-display (re-search-forward "[\n\C-m]")
> +           (forward-line 1))
> 
> So the ^M stuff that remains in here may have nothing to do with CRLF
> DOS stuff, but is something that's left over from code meant to deal
> with selective display?

Yes, I think so.  It just misfires in the obscure use case that
triggered this discussion.