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: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:31:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46040EDD.8070908@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMCEBEDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
> Wrt Lennart's suggestion, BTW: I want to be able to also remove the
> highlighting and then have font-lock treat that text normally again. So,
> nothing that permanently prevents font-lock from fontifying the text would
> be useful here.
I understand that my suggestion does not fit your needs now, but it is
quite easy to let font-lock take over the fontifying again.
> As a simple example, imagine that you want to be able to use `M-o o'
> (facemenu-set-face) on some text in a font-locked buffer. Currently, `M-o o'
> just tells you that "Font-lock mode will override any faces you set in this
> buffer" - IOW, you're SOL. If you want to see your highlighting, you must
> turn off font-lock. Instead of punting this way, `M-o o' could do what's
> needed to prevent font-lock from interfering - that is, from changing the
> facemenu highlighting.
To do that kind of thing you want you have to change
font-lock-fontify-region function. However that will not work for all
modes, only those that uses this. So at the moment you really can not do it.
To temporary set a face like you want to do I think you need to use
overlays.
> BTW, the doc does not explain anywhere (that I've found) just how the
> activation of `font-lock-face' is controlled by `font-lock-mode'. It says
> only that the mode toggles the activation of the property.
It seems to me that there are indeed things missing in the manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-23 17:31 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)
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) [this message]
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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