bug#20977: 24.5; Hi Lock Mode fails with "Invalid pattern list expression"

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> I suppose we could write something like
>
> When hi-lock is started and if the mode is not excluded or patterns
> rejected, the beginning of the buffer is searched for lines of the
> form:
>   Hi-lock: (FOO BAR)
>
> where FOO and BAR are patterns.
>
> but I don't know what `hi-lock-mode' patterns should look like and how
> that mode works.  If anyone does, please apply a patch so we can close
> this.

I've now done something like this in Emacs 28.

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