Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth

[Daniel Colascione]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Miles Bader<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > [Aside from the "changing text-properties affect buffer-modified  
> > status"
> > silliness, which I think is probably a mistake, but that's easy  
> > enough
> > to work around.]
>
> There are needs for it sometimes, but I always forget that it does.
> And there is no really easy, standard way to avoid the buffer
> modifying.
>
> I have two alternative suggestions:
>
> 1) Make a macro available for avoiding it.

See the macro I included in reply to the OP. You can also use c-save- 
buffer-state.