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Re: Levels of font lock – Dired, Dired+ and Diredful
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Levels of font lock – Dired, Dired+ and Diredful |
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Mon, 22 May 2017 23:22:22 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> 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