bug#57003: 28.1.90; Can local variables be loaded before loading major mode?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@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.