🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, I have been watching this discussion for a while, and I just have one
question: What (other than being slightly clumsy) is wrong with using
the existing emacs local variables mechanism, together with temporary
highlighting to, in effect, create permanent highlighting.

A local variable could either hold a (probably large) alist of information
about the formating of various regions, or it could simply point to
another file where that information is held.

Another local variable spec could install a write file hook which updates
the list of highlighted regions when the file is written.

Not very elegant, perhaps, but it seems like it would work, could be done
with a little elisp code (once it is possible to have "temporary"
highlighting in buffers), and would use only mechanisms which already exist
in emacs.

Just wondering...
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