Re: What is font-lock-lines-before?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > > > "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> writes:
> > This is seen in font-lock-defaults for buffers in c-mode. What is it?
>
> It's a remnant of a font-lock "feature" that was added and
> then (thankfully) removed.  Its effect was that whenever line N..M needed
> to be re-fontified, font-lock would refontify from N -
> font-lock-lines-before.


Thanks, then I guess it should be replaced with something else in c-mode 
too? Or is it just not needed any more?