Re: What is special about the minibuffer in regard to font locking?

[Stefan Monnier]

ndame via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2022-01-23 08:25:30] wrote:
> There is an existing bug report about font locking in the minibuffer
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46092
> and I'm wondering how the minibuffer is special which prevents font locking 
> there.

I don't think there's anything fundamental here.
Probably just code like:

    (define-minor-mode font-lock-mode
    [...]
      (when (or noninteractive (eq (aref (buffer-name) 0) ?\s))
        (setq font-lock-mode nil))
    [...]


-- Stefan