*** The new function `font-lock-remove-keywords' can be used to remove
font-lock keywords from the current buffer or from a specific major mode.
-*** multiline patterns are now supported.
+*** Multiline patterns are now supported. Modes using this, should
+set font-lock-multiline to t in their font-lock-defaults.
*** `font-lock-syntactic-face-function' allows major-modes to choose
the face used for each string/comment.
2001-01-19 Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
+ * font-lock.el (font-lock-multiline): Default to nil.
+ (font-lock-default-fontify-region): If font-lock-multiline is
+ nil, don't check the property `font-lock-multiline'.
+
* jit-lock.el (jit-lock-after-change): If font-lock-multiline
is nil, don't check the `font-lock-multiline' text property.