From 3a05b1e42256ad42163563c0977c8fa03d073ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:52:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Other Font Lock Variables): Document font-lock-lines-before. --- lispref/modes.texi | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/lispref/modes.texi b/lispref/modes.texi index f7510540d08..9464f900d4f 100644 --- a/lispref/modes.texi +++ b/lispref/modes.texi @@ -2381,6 +2381,14 @@ comments differently. It is also sometimes abused together with multiple lines, but this is too obscure to document in this manual. @end defvar +@defvar font-lock-lines-before +This variable specifies the number of extra lines to consider when +refontifying the buffer after each text change. Font lock begins +refontifying from that number of lines before the changed region. The +default is 1, but using a larger value can be useful for coping with +multi-line patterns. +@end defvar + @node Levels of Font Lock @subsection Levels of Font Lock -- 2.39.2