Re: Different fontification in temp buffer

[Noam Postavsky]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 10:55, Daniele Nicolodi <address@hidden> wrote:

> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/font-core.el?h=emacs-26.1#n135
> >
> >   ;; Don't turn on Font Lock mode if we don't have a display (we're running 
> > a
> >   ;; batch job) or if the buffer is invisible (the name starts with a 
> > space).
> >   (when (or noninteractive (eq (aref (buffer-name) 0) ?\s))
> >     (setq font-lock-mode nil))
>
> I'm explicitly turning on font-lock mode with (font-lock-ensure). The
> buffer is indeed fontified, but apparently with a different syntax
> table. However, I don't fully understand what beancount-mode does with
> the syntax table, thus I cannot exclude a bug there.

As far as I can tell, font-lock-ensure doesn't actually turn on
font-lock mode, it just goes ahead and fontifies the buffer anyway.
Perhaps beancount-mode's fontification functions don't quite work
properly in that case.