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(Other Font Lock Variables): Document font-lock-lines-before.

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comments differently.  It is also sometimes abused together with
@code{font-lock-syntactic-keywords} to highlight elements that span
multiple lines, but this is too obscure to document in this manual.
@end defvar

@node Levels of Font Lock
@subsection Levels of Font Lock

  Many major modes offer three different levels of fontification.  You
can define multiple levels by using a list of symbols for @var{keywords}

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comments differently.  It is also sometimes abused together with
@code{font-lock-syntactic-keywords} to highlight elements that span
multiple lines, but this is too obscure to document in this manual.
@end defvar

@defvar font-lock-lines-before
This variable specifies the number of extra lines to consider when
refontifying the buffer after each text change.  Font lock begins
refontifying from that number of lines before the changed region.  The
default is 1, but using a larger value can be useful for coping with
multi-line patterns.
@end defvar

@node Levels of Font Lock
@subsection Levels of Font Lock

  Many major modes offer three different levels of fontification.  You
can define multiple levels by using a list of symbols for @var{keywords}