Document how to avoid file-local variables that aren't

* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Specifying File Variables): Describe how
to prevent Emacs from interpreting unrelated text as file-local
variables.  (Bug#22166)

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diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
index 30e040195e8..fc405e3a147 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
@@ -1133,6 +1133,12 @@ won't confuse other programs that the file is intended for.  The
 example above is for the C programming language, where comments start
 with @samp{/*} and end with @samp{*/}.
 
+If some unrelated text might look to Emacs as a local variables list,
+you can countermand that by inserting a form-feed character (a page
+delimiter, @pxref{Pages}) after that text.  Emacs only looks for
+file-local variables in the last page of a file, after the last page
+delimiter.
+
 @findex add-file-local-variable
 @findex delete-file-local-variable
 @findex copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals