From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Difference between Font-Lock and Overlays Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223638879 19165 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2008 11:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 13:42:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KoGNn-0008Tx-3l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:42:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54445 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KoGMj-0002ex-15 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:05 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223637595 1872 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2008 11:19:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ip-w.foi.se:8080 (IronPort-WSA/5.6.0-618) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163320 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58662 Archived-At: When should I use font-lock-add-keywords() and when should I use overlays to realize syntax highlighting? Finally, in what cases should I prefer to use Toby Cubitt's auto- overlays package? /Nordl=F6w