Re: Putting the value of page-delimiter in some outline regexps?

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I've been trying to find a way to cordon off the bottom of my Org files,
> to create an area for file-local variables and "LocalWords" and what
> have you that Org doesn't consider part of the file's final heading.
>
> The usual Emacs thing to do seems to be using the value of
> page-delimiter to demarcate the end of content, and the beginning of
> meta data. I stuck that into the value of `org-outline-regexp', and also
> hard-coded it into the "true heading" branch of `org-end-of-subtree'.
> Over the past day this has worked fine for interactive use, and some
> automatic Org-based tools. But I'm not so naive as to think that
> catastrophic breakage couldn't be right around the corner as a result of
> this!
>
> Anyway, I wanted to see if anyone else had tried this, or had any ideas
> about it.

I think Org already puts some care into preserving file-local variables
at the end of the buffer, e.g., when moving around headlines. Maybe the
issues you're encountering can be fixed the same way.

Adding page delimiter in `org-outline-regexp' is clearly not subtle
enough in any case, as it would affect every headline, not only the last
one in the buffer.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou