Subject: Re: bug#18343: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `help-echo' property is not added, so no tooltip or echo

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 19:26:59 +0200

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> By "allow font-lock to propertize parts of the buffer with this
> property" do you mean allow it to propertize, with faces, parts
> of the buffer that happen to have property `help-echo'?  Or do
> you mean allow it to add property `help-echo' parts of the buffer?
>
> If the latter, what is the use case for font-lock doing that?
>
> I'll assume you meant the former -

No, the latter.  As Eli suggested, see lisp-mode.el for examples.  Or
`font-lock-compile-keywords'.

Michael.