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Re: font-lock-add-keywords frustrations


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: font-lock-add-keywords frustrations
Date: 30 May 2003 09:46:57 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>> You're confusing font-lock and faces.
> What is the difference? (newbie question. Be gentle:-)

Font-lock is a package that uses various mode-provided rules to determine
where to put faces in your buffer.  `faces' are annotations used by the
redisplay engine to affect how things look on your screen.


        Stefan


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