On Tue, Apr 06 2021, Ikumi Keita wrote: > Thanks Al for looking into this issue and checking with Doom Emacs. > >>>>>> David Denton <dwsden...@gmail.com> writes: >> These are the values I get. >> TeX-master is a buffer-local variable defined in tex.el. >> Global Value >> t > >> file-local-variables-alist is a buffer-local variable without a source >> file. >> Global Value >> nil > > The latter shows that emacs didn't analysed your Local Variables > section. In addition, it is very strange to see "without a source > file." for it. It should be "defined in ‘files.el’." under usual > circumastances.
It's possible David installed Emacs from a package manager and the Emacs package comes without source files. (Debian has a separate package containing the Elisp source files for Emacs, for example.) -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments