From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-text-properties and jit-lock-mode
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:04:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160221190438.GB2220@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24md20wnc.fsf@polytechnique.org>
Hello, Alan.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 07:02:31PM +0100, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm tracking down a bug in ledger-mode and I'm now at the point where I
> think I need some help about some emacs core code.
> The problem: if jit-lock-mode it t, then using set-text-properties to
> change the face does not work.
> To reproduce: start emacs with -Q. In the scratch buffer, type "foo".
> Then evaluate:
> (set-text-properties 192 195 (list 'face 'italic))
> Nothing changes, and when I do a `describe-char' on one letter of "foo"
> I don't see the face.
At a guess, what's happening here is this: your `set-text-properties'
does indeed work. But setting text properties is a buffer change. So
`before-change-functions' and `after-change-functions' will both be
executed. `a-c-f' contains `jit-lock-after-change', which helpfully
refontifies the line for you. All this happens before the screen is
redisplayed.
If you bind these hooks to nil around your call, I think it will work:
(let (before-change-functions after-change-functions)
(set-text-properties 192 195 (list 'face 'italic)))
> If I then evaluate
> (setq jit-lock-mode nil)
> (set-text-properties 192 195 (list 'face 'italic))
> then I see the face change to italic, confirmed by `describe-char'.
> As `set-text-properties' is a function in C, I don't know how to look at
> its source (any pointers on how to do this would be great). Is it
> supposed not to work for faces when jit-lock is on?
> Thanks,
> Alan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-21 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-21 18:02 set-text-properties and jit-lock-mode Alan Schmitt
2016-02-21 19:04 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2016-02-22 7:29 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-02-24 3:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-21 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 7:38 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-02-22 8:51 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-02-22 9:02 ` Alan Schmitt
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