RE: How to prevent font-lock (& jit-lock etc.) from refontifying?

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

Thanks for your replies. Does anyone know if it is true that font-lock
provides no way to prevent it from refontifying in the way I described? I'm
thinking there must be a (simple) way that I'm ignorant of. I can't believe
that they (we) would change font-lock in a way that lets it impose itself so
completely.

-----Original Message-----From: Kevin Rodgers
Sacha Chua wrote:
 > "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
 > > In Emacs 21, suppose that I apply a face to certain spans of text.
Maybe the
 > > buffer is already font-locked before doing this, maybe not. In either
case,
 > > I want these spans of text to show the face I apply, overriding any
 > > font-lock highlighting that might be there.
 >
 > One workaround would be to use overlays instead, as overlays override
 > font properties. Not the answer you're looking for, but might be
 > helpful...

Another technique I've used to work around this problem is to set the
category property instead of the face property:

(put 'foo 'face 'foo-face)
(put-text-property start end 'category 'foo)