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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:09:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rjh12ar.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZJmWoIoFhWLbllKGOoBEKXhqGHEjKbtb2hYzaUUrtVJYfM0rvW5mT_8Y9Ud0aQ94cvw9VtUde1mR2X-S5442US9Han10zBIZQrBwWe1o-l8=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:46:18 +0000)

> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:46:18 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >From what I understand, when font-lock-mode is enabled, it takes over the face property but provides an alias property - font-lock-face.  The font-lock-face property bypasses font-lock to allow coloured text.
> 
> Really weird stuff because if you want to allow someone to specify face property, just allow them to specify it.

What is weird about it?  font-lock-mode places face properties
according to the mode's definitions, so it will overwrite any face
properties you put manually.  Thus the need to use a different
property, which font-lock-mode doesn't control.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-09  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09  0:50 Adding colour when font-lock in disabled Heime
2022-12-09  1:46 ` Heime
2022-12-09  7:09   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-09  8:09     ` Heime
2022-12-09 12:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-09 12:27         ` Heime
2022-12-09 12:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-09 13:04             ` Heime
2022-12-09 14:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-09 18:54           ` Jean Louis
2022-12-09 21:39             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-12-09 23:19             ` Heime
2022-12-10  7:31               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-10  8:31                 ` Heime
2022-12-10  8:50                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-10 11:06                     ` Heime
2022-12-09  8:26     ` Heime
2022-12-09 12:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-09 13:48       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-10  1:59       ` Emanuel Berg

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