Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [some testing]

[Tassilo Horn]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

> Especially I wanted to see how to toggle it off and on in a buffer.
>
> Rationale: if the feature is set to invisible and you write __ this is
> a LaTeX error but you would *not* see it (I know this what was the
> mayor objection against that feature.)
>
> When I run customize or setq for that matter I can toggle indeed that
> feature on and off, but not as I thought by turning font-lock on and
> off, but I have to kill the buffer and reopen it again.

A simply `font-lock-flush' should suffice.

> Can somebody confirm this?

That's normal behavior.  When font-lock has fontified everything and
nothing has changed, why should it refontify anything?

Bye,
Tassilo