Thank you so much for that explanation. It helped a lot.

> It's been placed on the opening char
> at position (nth 8 ppss) by the same code that placed the `|` syntax
> property on that same character.

I'm a bit confused as to what places the `|` syntax property. I see
`(put-text-property eol (1+ eol) 'hcl-here-doc-marker str)` in
`hcl--font-lock-open-heredoc`. But my understanding is that syntactic

phase happens before the fontification. So I don't understand how

`hcl--font-lock-open-heredoc` is able to place the symbol for

`hcl--syntax-propertize-function`.

Reza