Re: Is there something like `on-display-functions'?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Emacs,
>
> Is there some hook called each time something's about to be displayed on
> the screen (regardless of whether or not font-lock is enabled)?
>
> If there is, I could use it to apply the appropriate text properties to
> C++ template delimiters as they're about to be displayed, thus
> potentially speeding up startup for C++ (and like languages).
>
> Yes, I've tried searching for it and not found it.


Just curious, but why don't you want to use font-lock for it?