Re: What to do when font-lock-flush + font-lock-ensure do less than font-lock-fontify-buffer?

[Stefan Monnier]

> In particular, when the font-lock-fontified variable is nil (which does
> happen, though I don't know why; I don't know what this variable is for),

AFAIK this only happens when font-lock-mode is OFF, or when jit-lock is
not used and the buffer is larger than font-lock-maximum-size.

> then calling font-lock-fontify buffer does refontify the whole buffer, but
> font-lock-flush and font-lock-ensure don't seem to do anything.

It's normal for font-lock-flush to do nothing.  As for font-lock-ensure
it's a bug which I believe I fixed a few weeks ago.


        Stefan