semi problem setting paragraph-start

[John Owens]

At Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:01:55 -0700,
John Owens wrote:
> 
> The code is in semi.el (I'm using the latest version, in Carbon
> Emacs): 
> 
> (defun turn-on-mime-edit ()
>     ...
>     (setq paragraph-start
> 	  (regexp-or mime-edit-single-part-tag-regexp
> 		     paragraph-start))

The folks on emacs.devel suggest that it's necessary to "call
make-local-variable on paragraph-start."

JDO