I am opening a file in it's own buffer, and hoping trying to get Emacs to font-lock it. I am not sure if font-lock will do it's thing when buffer is loaded or when it is displayed so I am calling (font-lock-ensure) to get it to (hopefully) kick-in. I see also dired is trying to font-lock inserted text. 1. what do I need to call to make it to font-lock 2. how do I tell Dired to give crap to font-lock the text after the insertion? Can I disable just a region from font-lock? Thanks for any help!