bug#8626: 24.0.50; (elisp) Region to Fontify after a Buffer Change - Why a child of Multiline Font Lock?

[Stefan Monnier]

> What limits the import of this node to multiline font-lock?
> Nothing that I can see.

Maybe the problem is "your" notion of "multiline font-lock"?

There's no such thing as a "multiline font-lock" feature or
functionality, but only "Multiline Font Lock Constructs", i.e. there are
cases where a major mode needs to get font-lock to recognize elements
that span multiple lines.

> This node is about refontification after buffer changes.  It is not,
> logically, a subnode of `Multiline Font Lock Constructs'.

It is about having to extend the refontification area because
refontifying a single-line is not sufficient, presumably because the
major mode has to handle a multiline font-lock construct.


        Stefan