bug#36837: 26.2; whitespace-mode: whitespace-line-column is not set to local fill-column

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Štěpán Němec
>  <stepnem@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:11:39 +0200
> Cc: tastytea <tastytea@tastytea.de>, 36837@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:04:35 +0200
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
> > I'd guess the reason is that file local variables should override mode
> > settings.
> 
> Sure, but isn't that precisely an argument for the reverse order?

No.  The logic here is that a mode hook is more general than
file-local variables (because a mode hook affects _all_ files that are
visited with that mode).