Re: how to prevent font-lock from messing with a portion of text?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Drew Adams wrote:
>>> How can one prevent font-lock from changing the text properties
>>> of a given portion of text? I tried (put-text-property start end
>>> 'fontified t), but C-x C-s just re-font-lock fontifies the text
>>> in question.  I also tried binding `inhibit-modification-hooks'
>>> to t, with the same result.
>> There are many different ways, each one with advantages and quirks,
>> I can't recommend any without knowing more of what you're trying to do,
> 
> Use put-text-property to add a face to some text using the `face' property.
> Prevent subsequent "erasure" of that highlighting by font-lock.
> 
> I would like to be able to, say, set a particular text property on the same
> text, which would cause font-lock to ignore that text (skip over it, as if
> it weren't there).
> 
> I thought that's what property `fontified' (= t) would do, but that seems
> not to be the case. The Elisp manual says this about `fontified':

Did you try using something like the defmacro `save-buffer-state' that 
you can find in font-lock.el?