Re: Should `auto-fill-function' be a safe local variable?

[Miles Bader]

Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>> But your hook function on text-mode-hook, which turns on Auto Fill
>> mode, can test what the mode really is, and not operate for TeX files.
>
> Yes, normally I want auto-fill in TeX mode. But occasionally I want to
> turn it off for some particular files.

It would seem much more convenient to have a separate boolean
`auto-fill-mode' variable, so the file-variables can fool with that, and
leave setting of auto-fill-function to the mode!

-Miles

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