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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to prevent font-lock from messing with a portion of text?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:09:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4602E284.5070101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMGEAHDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

Drew Adams wrote:
>>> How can one prevent font-lock from changing the text properties
>>> of a given portion of text? I tried (put-text-property start end
>>> 'fontified t), but C-x C-s just re-font-lock fontifies the text
>>> in question.  I also tried binding `inhibit-modification-hooks'
>>> to t, with the same result.
>> There are many different ways, each one with advantages and quirks,
>> I can't recommend any without knowing more of what you're trying to do,
> 
> Use put-text-property to add a face to some text using the `face' property.
> Prevent subsequent "erasure" of that highlighting by font-lock.
> 
> I would like to be able to, say, set a particular text property on the same
> text, which would cause font-lock to ignore that text (skip over it, as if
> it weren't there).
> 
> I thought that's what property `fontified' (= t) would do, but that seems
> not to be the case. The Elisp manual says this about `fontified':

Did you try using something like the defmacro `save-buffer-state' that 
you can find in font-lock.el?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-22 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22 16:56 how to prevent font-lock from messing with a portion of text? Drew Adams
2007-03-22 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-22 19:20   ` Drew Adams
2007-03-22 20:09     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-03-22 20:49       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-22 21:40         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-22 21:57     ` Miles Bader
2007-03-23 16:07     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-23 17:13       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-23 17:31         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-23 22:36         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-24  1:33           ` Drew Adams
2007-03-24  1:57             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-24  4:21               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-24  8:20                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-25  3:11                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-25  3:31                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-24  4:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26  1:48               ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26  1:59                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-26  5:52                   ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26  8:47                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-26 14:49                       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 13:01                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 13:26                   ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26 15:56                     ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 15:56                   ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 19:11                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 20:14                       ` Drew Adams

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