Re: kill ring menu

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:
> > Well, since categories are just symbols, we use the usual elisp
> > technique to avoid namespace clashes: a (hopefully) unique prefix.  All
> > the occur category symbols start with `occur-', all the ibuffer ones
> > start with `ibuffer-', etc. 
> 
> They're not buffer local.
> 
> font-lock is supposed to turn on or off faces in the _current buffer_.
> With your current code, doing `M-x font-lock' in, say, a shell buffer,
> will turn on or off faces in _every_ shell buffer (because they all
> use the same category properties).

What would it take to make categories buffer local ?

At least, it seems (without having looked at the code lately) an order
of magnitude simpler than making faces buffer local...

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