Re: font-lock basics?

[Francis Litterio]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Maybe the patch below papers over this particular manifestation of the more
> general problem.

It does.  Your patch is preferable to mine (in another message) -- I
didn't realize that font-lock-keywords might not be bound when this code
executes.

> Index: font-core.el
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/font-core.el,v
> retrieving revision 1.23
> diff -u -u -b -r1.23 font-core.el
> --- font-core.el      1 Sep 2003 15:45:12 -0000       1.23
> +++ font-core.el      31 Jan 2005 16:24:56 -0000
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  ;;; font-core.el --- Core interface to font-lock
>  
> -;; Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999, 2000, 2001, 02, 2003
> -;;  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> +;; Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
> +;;   2002, 2003, 2005  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  
>  ;; Maintainer: FSF
>  ;; Keywords: languages, faces
> @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@
>    ;; Only do hard work if the mode has specified stuff in
>    ;; `font-lock-defaults'.
>    (when (or font-lock-defaults
> +         (and (boundp 'font-lock-keywords) font-lock-keywords)
>           (cdr (assq major-mode font-lock-defaults-alist)))
>      (font-lock-mode-internal mode)))
>  
> @@ -295,6 +296,5 @@
>  
>  (provide 'font-core)
>  
> +;; arch-tag: f8c286e1-02f7-41d9-b89b-1b67780aed71
>  ;;; font-core.el ends here
> -
> -;;; arch-tag: f8c286e1-02f7-41d9-b89b-1b67780aed71