Re: Different fontification in temp buffer

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

Hi Noam,

On 20/01/2019 06:57, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 21:14, Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 19/01/2019 17:48, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> 
>>> I'm hacking on a minor mode and I'm writing unit tests for the
>>> fontification feature. I am encountering a strange issue: the
>>> fontification is different if execute in a temp buffer or in a regular
>>> buffer.
> 
>> Investigating further, the difference between the two cases is that
>> with-temp-buffer creates a buffer that does not keep undo information.
> 
> It's not about undo info, but rather that font-lock mode doesn't turn
> on in temp buffers.
> 
> See in the definition of font-lock-mode:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/font-core.el?h=emacs-26.1#n135
> 
>   ;; Don't turn on Font Lock mode if we don't have a display (we're running a
>   ;; batch job) or if the buffer is invisible (the name starts with a space).
>   (when (or noninteractive (eq (aref (buffer-name) 0) ?\s))
>     (setq font-lock-mode nil))

I'm explicitly turning on font-lock mode with (font-lock-ensure). The
buffer is indeed fontified, but apparently with a different syntax
table. However, I don't fully understand what beancount-mode does with
the syntax table, thus I cannot exclude a bug there.

Cheers,
Dan