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Buffer-Local Variables
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   The table below lists the general-purpose Emacs variables that
automatically become buffer-local in each buffer.  Most become
buffer-local only when set; a few of them are always local in every
buffer.  Many Lisp packages define such variables for their internal
use, but we don't try to list them all here.

`abbrev-mode'
     Note: Abbrevs.

`auto-fill-function'
     Note: Auto Filling.

`buffer-auto-save-file-name'
     Note: Auto-Saving.

`buffer-backed-up'
     Note: Backup Files.

`buffer-display-count'
     Note: Displaying Buffers.

`buffer-display-table'
     Note: Display Tables.

`buffer-file-coding-system'
     Note: Encoding and I/O.

`buffer-file-format'
     Note: Format Conversion.

`buffer-file-name'
     Note: Buffer File Name.

`buffer-file-number'
     Note: Buffer File Name.

`buffer-file-truename'
     Note: Buffer File Name.

`buffer-file-type'
     Note: MS-DOS File Types.

`buffer-invisibility-spec'
     Note: Invisible Text.

`buffer-offer-save'
     Note: Saving Buffers.

`buffer-read-only'
     Note: Read Only Buffers.

`buffer-saved-size'
     Note: Point.

`buffer-undo-list'
     Note: Undo.

`cache-long-line-scans'
     Note: Text Lines.

`case-fold-search'
     Note: Searching and Case.

`ctl-arrow'
     Note: Usual Display.

`comment-column'
     Note: Comments.

`default-directory'
     Note: System Environment.

`defun-prompt-regexp'
     Note: List Motion.

`enable-multibyte-characters'
     Note: Non-ASCII Characters.

`fill-column'
     Note: Auto Filling.

`goal-column'
     Note: Moving Point.

`header-line-format'
     Note: Mode Line Data.

`indicate-empty-lines'
     Note: Usual Display.

`left-margin'
     Note: Indentation.

`left-margin-width'
     Note: Display Margins.

`local-abbrev-table'
     Note: Abbrevs.

`local-write-file-hooks'
     Note: Saving Buffers.

`major-mode'
     Note: Mode Help.

`mark-active'
     Note: The Mark.

`mark-ring'
     Note: The Mark.

`minor-modes'
     Note: Minor Modes.

`mode-line-buffer-identification'
     Note: Mode Line Variables.

`mode-line-format'
     Note: Mode Line Data.

`mode-line-modified'
     Note: Mode Line Variables.

`mode-line-process'
     Note: Mode Line Variables.

`mode-name'
     Note: Mode Line Variables.

`overwrite-mode'
     Note: Insertion.

`paragraph-separate'
     Note: Standard Regexps.

`paragraph-start'
     Note: Standard Regexps.

`point-before-scroll'
     Used for communication between mouse commands and scroll-bar
     commands.

`require-final-newline'
     Note: Insertion.

`right-margin-width'
     Note: Display Margins.

`scroll-down-aggressively'
     Note: Textual Scrolling.

`scroll-up-aggressively'
     Note: Textual Scrolling.

`selective-display'
     Note: Selective Display.

`selective-display-ellipses'
     Note: Selective Display.

`tab-width'
     Note: Usual Display.

`truncate-lines'
     Note: Truncation.

`vc-mode'
     Note: Mode Line Variables.