From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to prevent font-lock (& jit-lock etc.) from refontifying? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:23:01 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <416D4855.2000406@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097681306 13857 80.91.229.6 (13 Oct 2004 15:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 13 17:28:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CHl2p-0004T8-00 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:28:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CHl9r-0002T1-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:35:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 5UdyhBPjAqLtCcnOBG5Z6AC1GgNtE16eYahBqTiKbrpbYnzwg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125863 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21233 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21233 Sacha Chua wrote: > "Drew Adams" writes: > > In Emacs 21, suppose that I apply a face to certain spans of text. Maybe the > > buffer is already font-locked before doing this, maybe not. In either case, > > I want these spans of text to show the face I apply, overriding any > > font-lock highlighting that might be there. > > One workaround would be to use overlays instead, as overlays override > font properties. Not the answer you're looking for, but might be > helpful... Another technique I've used to work around this problem is to set the category property instead of the face property: (put 'foo 'face 'foo-face) (put-text-property start end 'category 'foo) -- Kevin Rodgers