Re: how to prevent font-lock from messing with a portion of text?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > Did you try using something like the defmacro `save-buffer-state' that 
> > you can find in font-lock.el?
>
> I don't see the connection. 


It was merely a guess from my side. I thought that something in the 
fontification framework was started by the changes you made when you set 
the face.

Maybe I am also misunderstanding what you are trying to do. However I 
tried this:

- emacs -Q
- I opened a html file.
- M-x html-mode
- Did some small changes to modify the buffer
- Then I called the function below

 (defun test-mode-face()
  (interactive)
  (my-save-buffer-state nil
      (put-text-property 5 15 'face 'highlight)))

Now the buffer had the face above from 5 - 15. Then I did C-x C-s. That 
face remained.

If I remove my-save-buffer-state above I never see that highlight face.