Re: command to fontify whole buffer?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 19:30, Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> wrote:
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> on Thu Sep 22 2011, Alan Mackenzie <acm-AT-muc.de> wrote:
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>> Hi, Lennart.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 16:33, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> > By the way, I drew a diagram of how jit-lock works about 5 years ago,
>>> > tracing the functions which call each other, and the hooks out of which
>>> > things get hoiked.  Would you be interested in a copy of it?
>>
>>> Add it to Emacs documentation?
>>
>> Where?  Also, who's going to maintain it?  ;-)  I think it's useful in
>> its informal state.
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> Maybe a comment in the font locking code would be appropriate.  Anyone
> attempting a redesign would be tempted to read it, and thus be aware of
> it.  That gives it a fighting chance of staying up-to-date.

I agree with Dave!