Re: font-lock in shell.el

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:37:59 +0100 (BST), Nick Roberts
<address@hidden> wrote:
> In the shell buffer the current prompt has its own face,
> comint-highlight-prompt. After a command is entered, the new prompt has this
> face, but the face for the old prompt is relegated to font-lock-string-face.

You must have a prompt that triggers one of the various font-lock
patterns, causing font-lock to over-write the correct prompt face.

Older (before 2002 sometime) versions used overlays instead of
text-properties for all prompt faces instead of just the last one,
which were resistant to being overwritten.

I'm not sure about how to make font-lock not match areas with certain
properties attached; Stefan?

-Miles
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