[Bug: 21.5-b28] font-lock-fontify-buffer not working in HTML mode

[robert delius royar]

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 (09:06 +0900 UTC) Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> robert delius royar writes:
>
> >    (custom-set-faces
>
> The following are incorrect syntax, I believe.
> They should be lists with the third element t, or they will have no
> effect unless you custom-save and restart XEmacs.
> (User code should avoid using custom-* functions.  They are hairy,
> bark, "mark" lampposts, and bite the hand that feeds them.)
>
> >     '(html-helper-underline-face ((t (:underline t))))
> >     '(html-helper-strikethrough-face ((t (:strikethru t))))
> >     '(html-helper-link-face ((t (:foreground "blue"))))
> >     '(html-helper-significant-tag-face ((t (:foreground "salmon"))))
> >     '(flyspell-incorrect-face ((t (:foreground "OrangeRed" :underline t))))
> >     '(flyspell-duplicate-face ((t (:foreground "Gold3" :underline t)))))
>
> I don't know if that is what is causing your problem, but you should
> fix it.

If I bypass all the code that uses custom-set-faces, I still have to 
toggle the font-lock in HTML-Mode buffers to get syntax highlighting but 
not in perl or other non-psgml buffers.

Are there on-the-fly, programmatic ways to change font values used by 
font-lock-enable modes? In the defun that had these errors, I also used 
set-face-font which I believe is OK at the user level (which you did not 
flag as a possible problem).  But I did not find in the documentation 
whether I could control color for fore/background or slant and the 
font's heaviness.  (I am using Xft. I used to have font specifiers which 
worked with X11, but the fonts were not as clean as they are with Xft.)

Should I use set-face-property to do this?  My experiments with it show 
that I can do
   (set-face-font 'default "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12")
and see an immediate change, but
   (set-face-property 'default :size "12pt")
   (set-face-property 'default :family "Vera Sans Mono")
does not lead to a change.

By the way, those values (such as '(html-helper-underline-face ((t 
(:underline t)))) ) were initially copied from my ~/.xemacs/custom.el 
file which was created through the customize faces menu/page.  But maybe 
that is what you are saying--only customize can use them.  They did work 
for a long time, and they still work if I toggle font-lock mode in a 
buffer.

-- 
Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University                             Morehead, Kentucky