From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock-extend-region-function: Final refinements.
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:49:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807224915.GA1909@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvu04ola7y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Evening, Stefan!
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:45:02PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[ .... ]
> If you mean a major mode "Foo", then no: major modes typically don't
> use jit-lock: they use font-lock (which may or may not internally use
> jit-lock, but that's mostly none of their business, unless they fiddle
> with font-lock-support-mode).
OK.
> > Are you saying that j-l-a-c-extend-region-f is a hook purely for the
> > use of font-lock itself (i.e. only in the three files font-lock.el,
> > font-core.el and jit-lock.el)?
> And glasses.el, yes.
glasses.el is a really neat mode!
> > I'm fairly confused at the moment, particularly by some of the
> > function names. For example, what does the "jit-lock" part of the
> > name `font-lock-extend-jit-lock-region-after-change' mean? Does it
> > mean that this function only gets called when jit-lock is active?
> Yes.
> > Could you possibly give these new functions doc strings (or even
> > comments) which explain the context in which they're called?
> It's on the way.
Thanks.
> > But I'm not sure you've answered my question; if you have, I've not
> > understood the answer. So let me ask it again: why are there two
> > separate hooks for extending the region after a buffer change [that's
> > jit-lock-after-change-region-functions and
> > font-lock-extend-after-change-region-function]?
> Because you can use jit-lock without font-lock and vice-versa. One is
> for jit-lock clients (e.g. font-lock), and the other for font-lock
> clients (e.g. c-mode).
EUREKA!!! I hadn't realised that jit-lock could be used for things other
than fontification. You just have to stuff a different function, such as
the glasses one, into `jit-lock-functions'. Thanks for the
clarification!
Actually, there are places, quite a lot of them, in jit-lock.el (e.g. the
doc string for j-l-after-change-extend-r-f) which explicitly refer to
fontification. Maybe these could be reformulated with words more
accurate and more abstract than "fontify".
> > Again, would it be possible to simplify the whole mechanism by using
> > only one of the pairs `font-lock-beg/end' and `jit-lock-start/end'?
> Why would you care?
> c-mode should never need to know about jit-lock-(beg|end).
I'm happy about that!
> Stefan
--
Alan.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-30 12:48 font-lock-extend-region-function: Final refinements Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-30 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-30 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <jwv8xm6p9jx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20060803163040.GC1282@muc.de>
[not found] ` <jwvirl9llf2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-04 8:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-08-04 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-08-06 13:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-08-07 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-08-07 22:49 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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