From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:09:16 +0200 Message-ID: <838rjh12ar.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33621"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 09 08:10:53 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p3XX2-0008XS-Hr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:10:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3XWL-00032f-P4; Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3XW5-0002zq-FZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3XVb-0001nT-PI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:09:37 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=KOuVvwz9FXPOE1SAVMAqhB7uv5pFWdZf8QkDVDREjGM=; b=pNv6NKs+WuXb nXr6uiy6OXukZhSU2sWcKGIFyxBZm82YFhzR2utKq9yJGWgZ6Kn9jiq8W+DkpvIsKLkUPhLzauqFJ snHfVdI6pZzU+4O5gAEdwXBJESJcKVOTVOz9HfVixHaTp7uy2QfmGGjhDTDyWN7n2qqHZF8to662J GIZSfHY7LUjo+8TtynxUvVuQ+0/BCxrseaBmTfXgIH+HrRqCLkgjMmMC2gty/IAwKu2zNA83zTcBZ YkFC34cKgK19v5Ag3d34QJkBXS6A2vllkNkvU31k3zUBQ6IDdCpGZX5JDdbW9Da4QGdk4F2SoZKW7 mFBZcQPXpRbSWIzLk6G/DA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3XVb-0004xk-30 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:09:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:46:18 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141498 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:46:18 +0000 > From: Heime > Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > >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.