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Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Why is it needed at the beginning of a major mode?  Why kill all the
> local variables?  Aren't you doing it from new buffers 99% of the
> time?

Urm; I don't quite know.  It's documented somewhere that all major
modes should call that function.

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