Re: font lock with functions

[Stefan Monnier]

>>        (while ...
>>          (put-text-property x y 'face 'foobar-face)
>>          ...)
>>        ;; Return nil if you don't want font-lock to call you again right away
>>        ;; to "look for the next match".
>
> I was going to suggesting this myself, but isn't this approach even more of
> a hack (i.e. undocumented feature)?

I don't see it as a hack, no.  It would be nice for font-lock to provide
a more direct way to get the same result, but it's what we have.


        Stefan