Re: Last steps for pretesting (font-lock-extend-region-function)

[Stefan Monnier]

> Hopefully I understand "your solution" correctly here if I am assuming
> this relates to putting the hook into
> `font-lock-default-fontify-region'.  I've implemented a variant of
> this approach for AUCTeX by using a custom-made function for
> `font-lock-fontify-region-function' which calls other functions for
> extending the region and then calls `font-lock-default-fontify-region'
> with the extended region as arguments.  There is no special code in
> `after-change-functions' and the approach actually works quite well.

Hey, that's a very good point.  There isn't any real need for a new
"extend-region" hook in font-lock-default-fontify-region since we can simply
use the font-lock-fontify-region-function hook for that purpose.

Thanks for pointing it out,


        Stefan