GNU bug report logs - #57003
28.1.90; Can local variables be loaded before loading major mode?

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57003 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57003: 28.1.90; Can local variables be loaded before loading major mode?
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:23:39 +0200

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>> Having Emacs support early setting would be much easier.
>>
>> You could make the relevant Org variables `permanent-local' -- then
>> calling `org-mode' won't clear them out.
>
> Could you please elaborate on how it is going to help with loading
> file-local variables before loading Org mode?

Sorry, phrased that all wrong -- I meant that if we had a mechanism to
read the dir-locals earlier, then if you make the variables
permanently-local, then things would indeed work fine without any
further scaffolding here.

So perhaps we should just allow that, but I'm not sure how we'd specify
this.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.