Re: Emacs revision #107149

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:15:18PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Actually, a real fix to this problem involves adding new a font-lock
> function, which I like to call font-lock-ensure-fontification, which
> mm-view would then call to force immediate fontification of the
> specified region.  This function would know how to handle jit-lock,
> lazy-lock, and whichever other accelerator we come up with.

I Don't understand.  Why is the forcing of immediate fontification ever
necessary?  That's what JIT lock does, isn't it?

> Such a functionality is also needed in other packages, such as
> in htmlfontify.  We have a bug report for this, but I can't find it
> any more.


>         Stefan

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