Re: global font-lock?
>>>> "Matt" == Matt Tucker
<tuck(a)whistlingfish.net> writes:
> XEmacs doesn't have an equivalent. Presumably that's an
> oversight.
Matt> I'm not sure I agree with that.
*shrug* The docstring for font-lock-auto-fontify says "fontify files
as they are loaded."
Matt> Without adding another global variable, would it be
Matt> reasonable to try to use the GNU Emacs hack to enable
Matt> font-lock for non-file buffers?
Depends on what you mean by "weird hack."
It seems to me that the logical thing to do is to admit that font-lock
has nothing to do with files and everything to do with buffers, and
move the font lock enabling hooks to the buffer creation code.
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