Re: Seeking advice on writing a "line-based" major mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> correctly that I can just safely (setq my-ewoc (ewoc-create ...)),
> knowing that the old one will be GC'ed automatically?

You don't need to re-create the ewoc, but you can instead clear it
(e.g. with ewoc-filter) and then re-fill it.

> Also, I'd like to color various entries in my ewoc, using different
> faces.  Do I get it correctly that I should assign them faces right
> after `insert'ing them in my pretty-printing function?

Sounds fine, yes.  Sometimes it's more convenient to assign the face to
the strings before you insert them, but either way work fine.


        Stefan