Re: Copying preserves font-lock-face

[Miles Bader]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:
>  > Yes but face and font-lock-face are different character properties and I'm
>  > talking about the latter.
>
> I don't understand where you get a `font-lock-face' (sic) property from
> but you can add it to `font-lock-extra-managed-props'.

Font-lock-mode arranges for `font-lock-face' properties to be
interpreted as `face' properties (using `char-property-alias-alist').

This allows a mode to _directly_ add face properties in a font-locked
buffer, and these face properties are safe from being overwritten by
font-lock-mode.  This to support modes which really want to do their own
ad-hoc facification (:-), while still allowing the user to turn face
display on or off using `M-x font-lock-mode' (etc).

-Miles

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