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Re: font lock with functions
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David Engster |
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Re: font lock with functions |
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Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:13:20 +0200 |
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>> - It is very easy during testing to completely hang your Emacs session
>> if one of the font-lock functions hangs. One usually needs to kill
>> Emacs in this case.
>
> `jit-lock-debug-mode` might be helpful there.
Thanks. Did not know this one.
> You can't use the `font-lock-keywords` special syntax for that, but you
> can still do it (by hand). E.g.
> (while ...
> (put-text-property x y 'face 'foobar-face)
> ...)
> ;; Return nil if you don't want font-lock to call you again right away
> ;; to "look for the next match".
> nil)
Oh, I see. This is very helpful.
-David
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