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28.1.90; Can local variables be loaded before loading major mode?

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 57003 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57003: 28.1.90; Can local variables be loaded before loading major mode?
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:22:52 +0800

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

> This area is notoriously brittle and complicated.  I worry that any
> change in evaluation order is going to break lots of stuff for various
> use cases.

Agree.

> So I'd really prefer a new way to specify "early variables", but I have
> no idea how that'd look in practice.  Perhaps just a new thing in
> .dir-local.el, making that backwards-compatible is a challenge in
> itself.

Maybe something like 'early-local property instead of 'permanent-local?
It will not break the existing cases, while allowing the major modes or
users to mark the variables that are safe to load early.

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