From: "andlind@gmail.com" <andlind@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font-lock seemingly interacting with insertion
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 01:04:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10a1561f-953f-4514-90e1-ffed73058fa1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.11214.1521997256.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Hi!
You could add your own custom property to `char-property-alias-alist'. This will work regardless if font-lock is active or not. This is how font-lock implements `font-lock-face', so you might find that it has the same drawbacks as `font-lock-face'.
One drawback that I can see is that some packages that convert buffers with syntax highlighting to other formats might not take this into account.
-- Anders
On Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:00:59 UTC+2, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> On 2018-03-22, at 01:39, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> >> > That's a possibility, but it will only work in modes/buffers that turn
> >> > on font-lock. AFAIU, that was not OP's intent.
> >>
> >> I wasn't sure about the actual use case.
> >>
> >> If it should work for both font-lock on and off, would it make sense to
> >> add both a face and a font-lock-face property to the string to be
> >> inserted?
> >
> > I haven't followed this, so the use case is not clear to me.
> >
> > But if the OP wants highlighting that will be present whether
> > font-locking is on or off then font-lock is not the answer (!),
> > including its use of `font-lock-face'.
>
> font-lock-face won't work, but for different reasons. As I mentioned in
> my previous message, I'll report back (in fact, I'll blog about it some
> day) when the issue is solved. Most probably, I will have to use
> overlays.
>
> > If you want highlighting that is independent of font-lock then
> > you might give library `highlight.el' a try. It lets you
> > highlight using text properties or overlay properties, and the
> > highlighting can be independent of font-lock (or not - au choix).
>
> That is interesting - I even have that library because of
> `hlt-highlight-region' - but in this case I don't want any
> dependencies. But thanks anyway!
>
> > If you want to be able to tell font-lock "hands off", i.e., to
> > ignore particular text, you can alternatively use text property
> > `font-lock-ignore'. For that, see library `font-lock+.el'.
>
> Interesting, but again - external library.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-15 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 5:28 Font-lock seemingly interacting with insertion Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-21 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 7:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-21 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 9:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-21 14:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-21 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 15:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-21 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-22 0:39 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-22 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-25 17:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.11214.1521997256.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-15 8:04 ` andlind [this message]
2018-03-25 16:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
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