From: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: tutorial on faces ?
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:58:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406711A6-E62E-4F43-B891-51724243CA9A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6a3c03f-6aad-46ee-88b9-25bbdbf9639f@default>
> On Feb 8, 2019, at 0:44, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> I probably should have mentioned this: To highlight
> parts of a string is one thing - use `propertize'
> with property `face', for example.
>
> To highlight parts of a buffer is something else.
How is that something else ?
> You typically use font lock for this. Font lock
> periodically updates the highlighting, even as
> you change buffer contents. It applies a set of
> highlighting rules (regexp patterns, for example),
> in sequence.
Isn't it something you'd always want ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
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http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-07 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 13:38 tutorial on faces ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-02-06 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-06 15:32 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-02-06 16:45 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-07 5:47 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-02-07 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-07 15:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-02-07 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-07 15:58 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2019-02-07 17:54 ` Drew Adams
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