Re: Path & Demo: Source View in Help Buffers

[Arthur Miller]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>
>>> Out of curiosity, why do you have fboundp-checks for font-lock-ensure
>>> in the code?  That's always true, isn't it?
>>
>> I don't know. Since font-lock has all its stuff abstracted into buffer
>> local function variables, I am not sure if I can count it is not nil?
>
> But it's no buffer-local variable, it's a function.  If you have emacs
> 25.1 upwards, you have `font-lock-ensure'.
>
>> If I can I would gladly remove the check. I appreciate advice, I am
>> not so familiar with all the details of everything.
>
> I think that's a common check for 3rd-party packages which want to keep
> supporting emacs 24.  But since you are hacking emacs core, there's no
> need for that unless the function/variable is only defined if some
> configure option is given or some lib is available.  But none of the
> latter applies to font-lock.el.

Allright, thank you. I didn't know so much about font lock :).