Re: set background color without using faces

[fxbois]

> What's wrong with the same technique, i.e. using font-lock-fontify-region?

For my keyword rules I almost never set the "override" element to t 
So if i use a first keyword that set all the entire region (".*") to a face 
that set the background, the other rules won't work.

An other issue with this kind of "background rule", my code that shows the 
whitespaces would not work either.

Is it possible for a (point) in the buffer to have a face and a background 
color that is different from the background property of the face ? This way I 
would be able to set the background of the region and after that play with 
faces.