Re: Font-lock seemingly interacting with insertion

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-03-21, at 16:24, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:11:49 +0100
>> 
>> I thought the text property "font-lock-face" was exactly for such
>> cases.  Isn't it appropriate in this case?
>
> That's a possibility, but it will only work in modes/buffers that turn
> on font-lock.  AFAIU, that was not OP's intent.

I was quite vague, but indeed that was my intent.  However,
font-lock-face generated further problems.  I'll report back when
I solve the problem (I know how to do it, I just need more time).

Thanks,

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