Re: How to prevent font-lock (& jit-lock etc.) from refontifying?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sacha Chua wrote:
> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > In Emacs 21, suppose that I apply a face to certain spans of text. Maybe the
> > buffer is already font-locked before doing this, maybe not. In either case,
> > I want these spans of text to show the face I apply, overriding any
> > font-lock highlighting that might be there.
>
> One workaround would be to use overlays instead, as overlays override
> font properties. Not the answer you're looking for, but might be
> helpful...

Another technique I've used to work around this problem is to set the
category property instead of the face property:

(put 'foo 'face 'foo-face)
(put-text-property start end 'category 'foo)

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Kevin Rodgers