Subject: Re: bug#71345: Feature: unleash font-lock's secret weapon; handle Qfontified = non-nil

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:00:49 -0400

>> 1 Make font-lock a good citizen by using its own alias for face. 
>> 2 Give other jit-lock backends which may alter face and potentially
>> conflict with font-lock the ability to specify
>>  to jit-lock “if you re-run font lock on a region, re-run me too after that.”
>
> I don't understand.  The solution to this dilemma is well known: Lisp
> programs that want to control faces without turning off font-lock mode
> should set font-lock-face property, instead of the face property.  Why
> do you need to find another solution?

Another solution to that dilemma was to use overlays.  🙂

        Stefan