Re: Question: add-face-text-property for 'font-lock-face?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
> CC: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 07:19:03 +0000
> 
> I need to add some face attribute to a range of text.
> And in case that font-lock-mode is active, the attribute needs to be
> added to ‘font-lock-face instead of ‘face text property.
> 
> > I don't think I understand well enough what you want to do, but in
> > general, you change a face's attribute by using set-face-attribute.
> That doesn’t seem to work for anonymous faces.
> I don’t want to globally modify other modes’ faces,
> I want to add some attribute over some range of text.
> 
> add-face-text-property seems to exactly do this,
> but it’s hardcoded for ‘face property in C code

A face property is just a list of keyword-value pairs, so adding an
attribute to the list should be trivial, no?  Or what am I missing?

> textprop.c L1355:
> >   AUTO_LIST2 (properties, Qface, face);
> >   add_text_properties_1 (start, end, properties, object,
> >                      (NILP (append)
> >                       ? TEXT_PROPERTY_PREPEND
> >                       : TEXT_PROPERTY_APPEND),
> >                      false);
> >   return Qnil;
> 
> 
> It’s a trivial modification to support attributes other than face.
> However it requires a patch to C code.
> For now I think I’ll just workaround it by reinventing
> the same functionality in Elisp.

Adding something to a list is so simple you don't need to invent
anything, I think.