Re: font-lock-face superseeds face?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

martin rudalics wrote:
> > Is not the text property 'font-lock-face supposed to superseed 'face? 
> > Should not this give one character shown in the face 'highlight:
> >
> >   (put-text-property (1- (point)) (point) 'font-lock-face 'highlight)
>
> It works properly here with Emacs -Q, putting the line into *scratch*,
> point after it, and doing C-x C-e.  The closing parenthesis is displayed
> with the 'highlight face.  What did you do to make it fail?

Thanks for the answer. Yes, it works for me to evaluating it like you did.

I evaluated it from the minibuffer with M-:, but that does not make any 
difference.

However if I now comment out the statement the 'highlight face is 
hidden. Does that happen for you too?