Re: font lock with functions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31.03.2020 17:56, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > >         (while ...
> > >           (put-text-property x y 'face 'foobar-face)
> > >           ...)
> > >         ;; Return nil if you don't want font-lock to call you again right away
> > >         ;; to "look for the next match".
> > I was going to suggesting this myself, but isn't this approach even more of
> > a hack (i.e. undocumented feature)?
> I don't see it as a hack, no.  It would be nice for font-lock to provide
> a more direct way to get the same result, but it's what we have.

OK, but we should probably document this possibility better, then.