Re: Activate an input-method from file-local variables?

[Richard Stallman]

     > File local variables are a user feature, not a Lisp programming
     > feature,

    They are both. You need an awareness of programming Lisp to use them,
    something not true for most things detailed in the Emacs Manual.

On the contrary, users can make file-local variable bindings for most
of the variables described in the Emacs Manual without knowing how to
program.  They only need to know Lisp syntax for the values they use.

    I call those three phrases ?throwaway? because they don?t arise at the start
    of any section, they are mentioned in passing rather than emphasised.

It looks like the start of the section to me:

    @node File Variables
    @subsection Local Variables in Files
    @cindex local variables in files
    @cindex file local variables

      A file can specify local variable values for use when you edit the
    file with Emacs.  Visiting the file checks for local variable
    specifications; it automatically makes these variables local to the
    buffer, and sets them to the values specified in the file.


     > That section describes Lisp facilities for creating and deleting
     > buffer-local bindings.  File local variable lists don't belong there.

    File local variable lists create buffer-local bindings! That?s what David
    just explained to me. 

The description of buffer-local bindings includes that section and
several others.  That section is about Lisp facilities for creating
such bindings.  Other aspects of buffer-local bindings are described
in the neighboring sections.