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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:26:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bMiSDzLAFo_mGDLlimfiLF4azDP8PDFE_1Edvi4o9z8_N66IUvHy3XLHRwYipeHoH6e5QHiN8nLyCAeheuH18ijnr5mREYdjDNsU-0BrKz8=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838rjh12ar.fsf@gnu.org>

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, December 9th, 2022 at 7:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > 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.

If I  want to use and enforce colour property, could there be a function that sets the colour irrpespective of whether font-lock is "on" or "off" ?

Perhaps I should avoid using fundamental-mode as a useful mode to work with.  Is it a rule that when a new buffer is made, it goes into fundamental-mode where font-lock is off ?






  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-09  8:26 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
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 [this message]
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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