Re: Three strikes them out

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > Does that mean I have to arrange to avoid after-change-functions to be
>  > run during fontification?
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand your question.  Font-lock routines bind
> `inhibit-modification-hooks' to t so these won't be run during
> fontification.

Ah, thanks. That was not clear to me.

> I suppose you use some other hook or timer based code
> that modifes the buffer and triggers contextual fontification over and
> over.

This time I happened to change the text property 'fontified (because of 
a test I forgot to remove). But the hang I experienced during this did 
not lock up Emacs totally.

Thinking about it again that is what I expect since the loops involved 
restarting idle timers.