GNU bug report logs - #8624
24.0.50; `font-lock-default-fontify-buffer'

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 22:07:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 8624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8624: 24.0.50; `font-lock-default-fontify-buffer'
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:18:16 -0700

> What would you imagine these doc strings would say?  "(un)fontify the
> region according to the default font-lock rules; see the manual for
> details"?

If that's what these functions do, then yes.  But only if the manual actually
explains things, i.e., provides the details.  And wrt putting such a sentence in
the manual (not just in the doc strings), it needs to cross-reference the
precise node or nodes where this is explained.

This should be a no-brainer, at least in terms of need if not in terms of the
explanations to add.  Today we in effect refer people to non-existent doc.  We
do not explain this today.
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