Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:46:18 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >From what I understand, when font-lock-mode is enabled, it takes over the 
> >face property but provides an alias property - font-lock-face.  The 
> >font-lock-face property bypasses font-lock to allow coloured text.
> 
> Really weird stuff because if you want to allow someone to specify face 
> property, just allow them to specify it.

What is weird about it?  font-lock-mode places face properties
according to the mode's definitions, so it will overwrite any face
properties you put manually.  Thus the need to use a different
property, which font-lock-mode doesn't control.