Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled

[Heime]

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On Friday, December 9th, 2022 at 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 12:27:22 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > What if I try to do something different. Making a buffer for a package 
> > where users are not expected to change it. For instance, a package could 
> > make a named buffer that logs some operations, with certain things 
> > coloured. The faces would not change dynamically because users cannot edit 
> > the buffer text.
> 
> 
> Then you don't need font-lock. Just place your faces after turning
> off font-lock.

So I can use any mode (e.g. text-mode, org-mode), turn off font-lock-mode and 
then simply do  

(insert (propertize "G" 'face '(:foreground "green")))