Mercurial > emacs
changeset 46036:dd119e0d1cea
Explain that Font Lock controls fontification of special modes.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:29:36 +0000 |
| parents | 11e7a6a33a8c |
| children | 7af49c69e77b |
| files | man/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/display.texi Wed Jun 26 22:27:41 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/display.texi Wed Jun 26 22:29:36 2002 +0000 @@ -195,13 +195,14 @@ @cindex mode, Font Lock @cindex syntax highlighting and coloring - Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular -buffer, which highlights (or ``fontifies'') using various faces -according to the syntax of the text you are editing. It can -recognize comments and strings in most languages; in several -languages, it can also recognize and properly highlight various other -important constructs---for example, names of functions being defined -or reserved keywords. + Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular buffer, +which highlights (or ``fontifies'') using various faces according to +the syntax of the text you are editing. It can recognize comments and +strings in most languages; in several languages, it can also recognize +and properly highlight various other important constructs---for +example, names of functions being defined or reserved keywords. +Some special modes, such as Occur mode and Info mode, have completely +specialized ways of assigning fonts for Font Lock mode. @findex font-lock-mode @findex turn-on-font-lock