Re: Help Understanding syntax-propertize-function

[Stefan Monnier]

>> It's been placed on the opening char
>> at position (nth 8 ppss) by the same code that placed the `|` syntax
>> property on that same character.
>
> I'm a bit confused as to what places the `|` syntax property.  I see
> `(put-text-property eol (1+ eol) 'hcl-here-doc-marker str)` in
> `hcl--font-lock-open-heredoc`.  But my understanding is that syntactic
> phase happens before the fontification.

`hcl--font-lock-open-heredoc` is called by
`hcl--syntax-propertize-function`.
The `font-lock` in the name is just a relic, I expect.


        Stefan