bug#13817: 24.3.50; Disabling whitespace-mode that was enabled in sgml-mode-hook breaks font-lock

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19.03.2013 17:02, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > On the surface, the reason for this is that when whitespace-mode is being
> > > > turned on in the hook, font-lock-keywords is still nil, and so nil is
> > > > saved in whitespace-font-lock-keywords.
> > > whitespace.el should probably use font-lock-remove-keywords instead.
> > That helped, thank you.
> > I left the disabling/enabling of font-lock-mode there, because otherwise the
> > changes in highlighting are not visible until the buffer is modified.
>
> Supposedly `font-lock-fontify-buffer' is meant to do that without
> disabling+enabling.

That works, too. :)