🚀 go-pugleaf

teape@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Andrew Kiggins) writes:
 > emacs-18.55/Sun3/80/Openlook/vax/BSD4.2
 > ftp-find-file from vax over to Sun.
 > save-some-buffers USUALLY does an automatic ftp-write-file with normal y/yes
 > Q & A session.
 > after M-x c-mode on the file save-some-bufers / save-buffer no longer 'knows'
 > that the file has been ftp'd and does do an automatic ftp-write-file.
 > Is there a variable somewhere? Or does ftp not work in this mode for some 
 > reason? Returning to the original mode does not solve the problem.

This happens becuase most major modes distributed with Emacs, C
mode included, call kill-all-local-variables, which clears away
the values of most local variables.  This makes Emacs forget the local
value of write-file-hooks in the FTP'd file buffer, and thus forget to
save the buffer via FTP.

Why is kill-all-local-variables called at the beginning of major modes?
This causes problems with minor modes that need to linger across major mode
changes.  I wish those calls to kill-all-local-variables would go away in
v19.  Or sooner.