Jan> ;; If the buffer is about to be reverted, it won't be fontified afterward. Jan> (defun font-lock-revert-setup () Jan> (setq font-lock-fontified nil)) Jan> ;; If the buffer has just been reverted, normally that turns off Jan> ;; Font Lock mode. So turn the mode back on if necessary. Jan> ;; sb 1999-03-03 -- The above comment no longer appears to be operative as Jan> ;; the first call to normal-mode *will* restore the font-lock state and Jan> ;; this call forces a second font-locking to occur when reverting a buffer, Jan> ;; which is wasteful at best. Jan> ;(defalias 'font-lock-revert-cleanup 'turn-on-font-lock) Jan> (defun font-lock-revert-cleanup ()) Jan> a. Does undoing Steve's change help for your guys? Jan> b. Why _does_ the font-lock-ing work for me? I am using lazy-shot.el, Jan> are you? I'll give this a try soon. The problem is that sometimes font-lock goes away and sometimes it doesn't, and when it does goes away, I'm busy doing something else (real code!) so I don't bother to find out why. There does seem to be some correlation between the buffer size, though. Large buffers don't seem to get font-lock'ed again, but this is pure speculation. Jan> P.S. I am using lazy-shot.el that sim What? You mean Simon's version? I'm also using lazy-shot that comes in the sumo packages. Ray