Subject: bug#53155: Use overlays in hi-lock

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:17:31 +0200

close 53155 29.0.50
stop

>> But this heuristics doesn't work in read-only *vc-change-log* buffers
>> where expanding commits inserts new text that should be highlighted
>> with font-lock.
>>
>> Thus the following patch adds a new variable hi-lock-use-overlays
>> that can be used like:
>
> I guess that makes sense...

So now pushed to master and closed.  I'm not sure if the new
variable 'hi-lock-use-overlays' needs to be mentioned in NEWS.