Re: Different fontification in temp buffer

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

On 20/01/2019 10:56, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 10:55, Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> wrote:
> 
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/font-core.el?h=emacs-26.1#n135
>>>
>>>   ;; Don't turn on Font Lock mode if we don't have a display (we're running a
>>>   ;; batch job) or if the buffer is invisible (the name starts with a space).
>>>   (when (or noninteractive (eq (aref (buffer-name) 0) ?\s))
>>>     (setq font-lock-mode nil))
>>
>> I'm explicitly turning on font-lock mode with (font-lock-ensure). The
>> buffer is indeed fontified, but apparently with a different syntax
>> table. However, I don't fully understand what beancount-mode does with
>> the syntax table, thus I cannot exclude a bug there.
> 
> As far as I can tell, font-lock-ensure doesn't actually turn on
> font-lock mode, it just goes ahead and fontifies the buffer anyway.
> Perhaps beancount-mode's fontification functions don't quite work
> properly in that case.

Ah! I didn't know that there is a difference between fontifying a buffer
and enabling font-lock mode. I'll try to understand the differences.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Dan