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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > A problem with this solution is however that fontification must use
> > > > font-lock-fontify-region-function etc.  All major modes does not do that.
> > > Huh?  Which mode doesn't obey font-lock-fontify-region-function?
> > nxml-mode. Though it is not part of Emacs many people think it is the best
> > mode for editing XML.
>
> But it doesn't use font-lock either, so no amount of fixing font-lock will
> help it, right?


Yes, I believe so. I does its own fontification and I do not belive it 
has something in the fontification routines it uses that resembles 
font-lock-fontify-region-function. Unfortunately.