On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> It crossed my mind, but I didn't like the idea, as it also removes
> "good" fortification. I suppose this could be of little consequence.

I don't know what you mean by "removes good fontification".

Stefan

Actually you've said it in a comment:

(remove-overlays start end 'nlinum t)

;; Warn jit-lock that this part of the buffer is not done any

;; more. This has the downside that font-lock will be re-applied

;; as well. But jit-lock doesn't know how to (and doesn't want

;; to) keep track of the status of its various

;; clients independently.

(put-text-property start end 'fontified nil)

Evgeni