This section describes additional variables that a major mode can
set by means of other-vars in font-lock-defaults
(see Font Lock Basics).
If this variable is non-nil, it should be a function that is
called with no arguments, to choose an enclosing range of text for
refontification for the command M-x font-lock-fontify-block.
The function should report its choice by placing the region around it.
A good choice is a range of text large enough to give proper results,
but not too large so that refontification becomes slow. Typical values
are mark-defun for programming modes or mark-paragraph for
textual modes.
This variable specifies additional properties (other than
font-lock-face) that are being managed by Font Lock mode. It
is used by font-lock-default-unfontify-region, which normally
only manages the font-lock-face property. If you want Font
Lock to manage other properties as well, you must specify them in a
facespec in font-lock-keywords as well as add them to
this list. See Search-based Fontification.
Function to use for fontifying the buffer. The default value is
font-lock-default-fontify-buffer.
Function to use for unfontifying the buffer. This is used when
turning off Font Lock mode. The default value is
font-lock-default-unfontify-buffer.
Function to use for fontifying a region. It should take two
arguments, the beginning and end of the region, and an optional third
argument verbose. If verbose is non-nil, the
function should print status messages. The default value is
font-lock-default-fontify-region.
Function to use for unfontifying a region. It should take two
arguments, the beginning and end of the region. The default value is
font-lock-default-unfontify-region.
Function to use for declaring that a region’s fontification is out of
date. It takes two arguments, the beginning and end of the region.
The default value of this variable is
font-lock-after-change-function.
Function to use for making sure a region of the current buffer has
been fontified. It is called with two arguments, the beginning and
end of the region. The default value of this variable is a function
that calls font-lock-default-fontify-buffer if the buffer is
not fontified; the effect is to make sure the entire accessible
portion of the buffer is fontified.
This function tells Font Lock mode to run the Lisp function
function any time it has to fontify or refontify part of the
current buffer. It calls function before calling the default
fontification functions, and gives it two arguments, start and
end, which specify the region to be fontified or refontified.
If function performs fontifications, it can return a list of the
form (jit-lock-bounds beg . end), to indicate
the bounds of the region it actually fontified; Just-In-Time (a.k.a.
“JIT”) font-lock will use
this information to optimize subsequent redisplay cycles and regions
of buffer text it will pass to future calls to function.
The optional argument contextual, if non-nil, forces Font
Lock mode to always refontify a syntactically relevant part of the
buffer, and not just the modified lines. This argument can usually be
omitted.
When Font Lock is activated in a buffer, it calls this function with a
non-nil value of contextual if the value of
font-lock-keywords-only (see Syntactic Font Lock) is
nil.
If function was previously registered as a fontification
function using jit-lock-register, this function unregisters it.
This is a minor mode whose purpose is to help in debugging code that
is run by JIT font-lock. When this mode is enabled, most of the code
that JIT font-lock normally runs during redisplay cycles, where Lisp
errors are suppressed, is instead run by a timer. Thus, this mode
allows using debugging aids such as debug-on-error
(see Entering the Debugger on an Error) and Edebug (see Edebug) for finding and
fixing problems in font-lock code and any other code run by JIT
font-lock. Another command that could be useful when developing and
debugging font-lock is font-lock-debug-fontify, see Font Lock Basics.