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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font-lock seemingly interacting with insertion
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:54:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bmfhly00.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmfi0zgb.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Wed,  21 Mar 2018 06:28:36 +0100)

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:28:36 +0100
> 
> I want to insert a string with a part made bold (using
> `add-face-text-property').  In certain buffers (e.g. in Fundamental
> mode) this works, but in some other ones (e.g. in Org-mode or
> message-mode) it does not.  After turning font-lock off, it works back
> again.  This means that font-lock kicks in right after inserting and
> disables my boldface.

Yes.

> Is there a way to make it not happen, without turning font lock off?

Not really.  You can turn off JIT font-lock, but then you will have to
refontify manually, and I suspect that this would, for you, mean
"turning off font-lock".

Bottom line: in buffers with font-lock turned on, font-lock has
absolute control of the faces.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-21  5:28 Font-lock seemingly interacting with insertion Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-21  6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-03-21  7:24   ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-21  7:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21  9:05       ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-21 14:11   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-21 15:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 15:38       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-21 16:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-22  0:39         ` Drew Adams
2018-03-22  6:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-25 17:00           ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]           ` <mailman.11214.1521997256.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-15  8:04             ` andlind
2018-03-25 16:55       ` Marcin Borkowski

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