Re: how to prevent font-lock from messing with a portion of text?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > Don't you have to take care of font-lock-default-fontify-region too?
>
> Not that I can see. Did you try it? It takes only a minute to try.


Sorry, I was a bit unclear. You can not be sure 
font-lock-default-fontify-region is called. That depends on the setting 
of font-lock-fontify-region-function. (And if this frame-work is used 
for the fontifying.)

I guess if it is then your method might work.