Re: Font-lock seemingly interacting with insertion

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > I want to insert a string with a part made bold (using
> > `add-face-text-property').  In certain buffers (e.g. in Fundamental
> > mode) this works, but in some other ones (e.g. in Org-mode or
> > message-mode) it does not.  After turning font-lock off, it works back
> > again.  This means that font-lock kicks in right after inserting and
> > disables my boldface.
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is there a way to make it not happen, without turning font lock off?
>
> Not really.  You can turn off JIT font-lock, but then you will have to
> refontify manually, and I suspect that this would, for you, mean
> "turning off font-lock".

I thought the text property "font-lock-face" was exactly for such
cases.  Isn't it appropriate in this case?


Michael.