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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Levels of font lock – Dired, Dired+ and Diredful
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 23:22:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwp98b6u1.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8UqsBbcZ8Xya0184c4ozRWpURpe25Zt2ooJpZDh6RTzrw@mail.gmail.com

> There is a concept of levels of font lock. A major mode sets up three
> lists of keywords in a buffer-local ‘font-lock-defaults’ variable.

Yes, but it's poorly supported, as you've seen.

Personally I find it to be misguided, anyway: it'd be better for the
"font-lock-keywords" to depend on config vars so you can affect the
various parts independently.  But this requires a redesign of
font-lock-keywords and noone's been very interested in going down
that route.  Such a redesign could be very useful, tho, e.g. allowing
better debugging (or even edebug-ing).


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-23  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-22  9:48 Levels of font lock – Dired, Dired+ and Diredful Yuri Khan
2017-05-23  3:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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