Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 13:04:54 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> 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")))

Yes.