Re: tutorial on faces ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Feb 8, 2019, at 0:44, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> I probably should have mentioned this: To highlight
> parts of a string is one thing - use `propertize'
> with property `face', for example.
> 
> To highlight parts of a buffer is something else.

How is that something else ?

> You typically use font lock for this.  Font lock
> periodically updates the highlighting, even as
> you change buffer contents.  It applies a set of
> highlighting rules (regexp patterns, for example),
> in sequence.

Isn't it something you'd always want ?

Jean-Christophe Helary
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