Does byte-compile cause fontification?

Does byte-compile cause fontification?

[Richard M Stallman]

byte-compile displays messages in the echo area very briefly
which do not appear in *Messages*.  But they look like font lock
progress messages.  So I suspect that they come from fontification
in the buffer where byte-compile keeps the input.  That would
be a waste of time.  Would someone please arrange to turn it off?

Re: Does byte-compile cause fontification?

[martin rudalics]

 > byte-compile displays messages in the echo area very briefly
 > which do not appear in *Messages*.  But they look like font lock
 > progress messages.  So I suspect that they come from fontification
 > in the buffer where byte-compile keeps the input.  That would
 > be a waste of time.  Would someone please arrange to turn it off?

The *Compiler Input* buffer is never displayed, so with jit-lock there
would be a major bug if that buffer really got fontified.  Are you sure
the messages don't come from the *Compile-Log* buffer?

martin

Re: Does byte-compile cause fontification?

[Richard M Stallman]

    The *Compiler Input* buffer is never displayed, so with jit-lock there
    would be a major bug if that buffer really got fontified.  Are you sure
    the messages don't come from the *Compile-Log* buffer?

I don't know -- they flash by so fast that I cannot tell.