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24.3.50; extension to hi-lock.el

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From: David Koppelman <koppel <at> ece.lsu.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: lee <lee <at> yun.yagibdah.de>, 17021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17021: 24.3.50; extension to hi-lock.el
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:43:03 -0500

This does sound useful, but I'd need to see the patch. Use of this
variable should be guarded by hi-lock-file-patterns-policy too.


Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> lee <lee <at> yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>
>> | This is an extension to hi-lock mode (of bzr revno 116727):
>> | 
>> | You can use the buffer-local variable `hi-lock-patterns-file' to
>> | specify a file to write the higlighting-patterns to.  When this
>> | variable is set, the highlighting-patterns will be kept in a dedicated
>> | buffer instead of being written into the very file you`re editing.
>
> This patch unfortunately got no attention when it was posted seven years
> ago, and it no longer applies to Emacs 28.
>
> I am not a hi-lock user myself -- are there anybody else on the bugs
> mailing list here that can comment on whether this is something we'd
> want to add?  It does sound useful to me, but I'm not really familiar
> with how hi-lock works.

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