Re: font-lock-fontify-block

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Indeed (but that one, just like `font-lock-fontify-block`) suffers from
>> a heavy heritage so it's messy and misused, so I'd be very happy to
>> obsolete it (by replacing it with something simpler and that only caters
>> to the relevant cases).
> Another question: is font-lock-fontify-region also among the functions you'd
> like to obsolete?

`font-lock-fontify-region` is an important function internally (it's
the one and only function which performs font-locking, fundamentally),
so no.


        Stefan