How to control Emacs vs. vi state with a file local variable?

[Christoph LANGE]

Dear evil developers/users,

I would like to generally open all files of a certain type (org-mode) in 
vi state but make exceptions for a few individual files.  Using file 
local variables didn't work.

I tried

Local Variables:
eval: (evil-emacs-state)
End:

but apparently the order of execution was the following:

1. load the file
2. apply the local variables, switching to Emacs state
3. here, or possibly before (2), switch buffer to org-mode
4. on seeing that org-mode is not in the list of evil-emacs-state-modes, 
switch to vi state

If this assumption is right, is there any way of opening individual 
files in Emacs state?

Cheers, and thanks in advance,

Christoph

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