Subject: bug#20436: 25.0.50; syntax-multiline not documented

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 20:22:31 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> The most common use for it is when the syntax to use for "FOO" depends
> on some *later* text "BAR": by placing this property over the whole of
> "FOO...BAR" you make sure that any change of "BAR" will cause the
> syntax of "FOO" to be recomputed.

Excellent; I've now basically added that kinda verbatim to the
"Multiline Font Lock" section in the lispref manual.  Feel free to tweak
further.  :-)

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