Re: (font-lock-mode 1) does not always force font-lock

[Alexander Pohoyda]

Hrvoje Niksic <address@hidden> writes:

> > what code tests this?
> 
> I don't have the sources handy.  It seems that the code recognizes
> the buffer as temporary by checking for names that begins with
> space.  For instance, this works (returns t):
> 
> (let ((newbuf (generate-new-buffer "*foo*")))
>   (with-current-buffer newbuf
>     (c-mode)
>     (font-lock-mode 1)
>     (prog1 font-lock-mode
>       (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))))
> 
> Change "*foo*" to " *foo*", and it no longer works, i.e. it returns
> nil.

I have just tested it on recent Emacs and this code always works
(returns t). 


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