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M-o M-o `font-lock-fontify-block'
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
M-o M-o `font-lock-fontify-block' |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:23:01 +0000 |
Hello, Emacs.
On master, I just typed M-o M-o and instead of font-lock-fontify-block,
got a window with the M-o removal message. I've been using this binding
subconsciously for many years now, and it was a bit of a jolt for it not
to work.
I need this function for refontifying hi-lock-mode patterns which get
split onto two lines by auto filling. For example I have a pattern for
"bug #12345" with arbitrary whitespace, and this fairly often gets split
by a linefeed.
Clearly, this is a candidate for C-c <letter> for me. Typing M-x
font-lock-fontify-block would be intolerable after a very short while.
But, more to the point, a user accustomed to M-o M-o is going to have
inordinate difficulty finding the command to bind. Two of the M-o
bindings are mentioned in NEWS, to give people help. Why not all of
them?
Also, why must font-lock mode operating on patterns from hi-lock-mode be
unable to fontify over a line-break? This is surely something it ought
to be able to do. Setting font-lock-multiline to t doesn't help in this
case.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- M-o M-o `font-lock-fontify-block',
Alan Mackenzie <=