From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CVS GNU Emacs change in font lock behaviour
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:17:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uaceisb3v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135957377.437879.52520@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> (p.f.moore@gmail.com)
> From: "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@gmail.com>
> Date: 30 Dec 2005 07:42:57 -0800
>
> If I executed (insert (propertize "abc" 'face 'my-red-face)) in the
> *scratch* buffer with my old Emacs (CVS from some time way back in
> 2004), the text was inserted and displayed in red. With the new
> version, the face property is lost.
>
> I assume this is related to font-lock mode being switched on
Yes, font-lock is on by default from now on.
> The old behaviour was extremely useful for testing fontification code,
> and it's a pain that it has gone. But I can learn to work with the new
> behaviour if I need to.
It's probably better to test fontification code in a buffer other than
*scratch*, probably some buffer in Fundamental mode.
> Is this a deliberate change, rather than a bug?
Yes, it's a deliberate change. It was decided that the time has come
to have font-lock on by default, as other editors do.
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2005-12-30 15:42 CVS GNU Emacs change in font lock behaviour Paul Moore
2005-12-30 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2005-12-30 19:29 ` Paul Moore
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