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26.3; Mention how to get _only_ syntactic font lock

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 26.3; Mention how to get _only_ syntactic font lock
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:58:42 +0000

Please see this question (and comments):

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/62926/105

I supposed, but wasn't sure, that the answer is to just set
`font-lock-keywords' to nil (e.g. using `font-lock-defaults').

I looked for doc that spoke to this directly, but didn't find any.  The
doc tells you how to do the _opposite_: get only search-based
font-locking, and not also syntactic font-locking.  But I didn't find
anything explicitly saying how to get only syntactic font-locking.

If I'm right that this isn't mentioned explicitly, please consider
mentioning it.  It's a reasonable use case.



In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
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Message #10 received at 46039 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 46039 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46039: 26.3; Mention how to get _only_ syntactic font lock
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 20:57:43 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> I looked for doc that spoke to this directly, but didn't find any.  The
> doc tells you how to do the _opposite_: get only search-based
> font-locking, and not also syntactic font-locking.  But I didn't find
> anything explicitly saying how to get only syntactic font-locking.
>
> If I'm right that this isn't mentioned explicitly, please consider
> mentioning it.  It's a reasonable use case.

I've now mentioned it in the Emacs 29 lispref manual.

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