X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/a57471f93507c55b55ee9e28c493ba78b46796e3..e47695319fc758da7ff07d7084386258b6c8b677:/lisp/font-core.el diff --git a/lisp/font-core.el b/lisp/font-core.el index fcaaf33b71..a5de29520f 100644 --- a/lisp/font-core.el +++ b/lisp/font-core.el @@ -86,12 +86,12 @@ It will be passed one argument, which is the current value of ;; The mode for which font-lock was initialized, or nil if none. (defvar font-lock-major-mode) + (define-minor-mode font-lock-mode - "Toggle Font Lock mode. -With arg, turn Font Lock mode off if and only if arg is a non-positive -number; if arg is nil, toggle Font Lock mode; anything else turns Font -Lock on. -\(Font Lock is also known as \"syntax highlighting\".) + "Toggle syntax highlighting in this buffer (Font Lock mode). +With a prefix argument ARG, enable Font Lock mode if ARG is +positive, and disable it otherwise. If called from Lisp, enable +the mode if ARG is omitted or nil. When Font Lock mode is enabled, text is fontified as you type it: @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ this function onto `change-major-mode-hook'." ;; A few people have hassled in the past for a way to make it easier to turn on ;; Font Lock mode, without the user needing to know for which modes s/he has to ;; turn it on, perhaps the same way hilit19.el/hl319.el does. I've always -;; balked at that way, as I see it as just re-moulding the same problem in +;; balked at that way, as I see it as just re-molding the same problem in ;; another form. That is; some person would still have to keep track of which ;; modes (which may not even be distributed with Emacs) support Font Lock mode. ;; The list would always be out of date. And that person might have to be me.