From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to prevent font-lock from messing with a portion of text?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:26:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odmgrv96.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmz20cgcr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 26 Mar 2007 09\:01\:04 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> OK, here's another option: don't change anything to font-lock, don't fiddle
> with it at all, just don't use text-properties to add your special faces.
> Use overlays instead.
Typical "highlighter" applications seem a bit more suited to overlays
anyway (e.g., if I copy the text, I don't really expect the highlighting
to come along...).
I suppose if there's some reason to use text-properties, "hi-lock.el"
(in the distribution) could be used as an example of one way to do that.
[It actually _uses_ font-lock to do the highlighting which seems fairly
clever -- e.g., if you type more text after having highlighted a phrase,
the phrase gets automagically highlighted in the new text too!]
-Miles
--
Yo mama's so fat when she gets on an elevator it HAS to go down.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-26 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 16:56 how to prevent font-lock from messing with a portion of text? Drew Adams
2007-03-22 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-22 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-22 20:09 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-22 20:49 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-22 21:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-22 21:57 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-23 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-23 17:13 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-23 17:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-23 22:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-24 1:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-24 1:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-24 4:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-24 8:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-25 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-25 3:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-24 4:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 1:48 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 1:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-26 5:52 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 8:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-26 14:49 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 13:26 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-03-26 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 20:14 ` Drew Adams
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