Re: font-locking and inhibit-field-text-motion

[Stefan Monnier]

> I noticed that neither font-lock's `save-buffer-state' nor jit-lock's
> `with-buffer-prepared-for-jit-lock' bind `inhibit-field-text-motion'.
> Yet both, font-lock and jit-lock, use `line-beginning-position'.

> Just a casual, probably paranoid observation.  I don't use fields.

I don't think it's a problem.  The use of line-beginning-position in that
code is only a heuristic.  It may lead to surprising results in some cases,
but nothing terrible (and it may also be a feature sometimes).
Maybe we should rethink it after Emacs-22, but for now it's OK.


        Stefan