The customizable variable `font-lock-lines-before' is not honored by jit-lock mode. That's irritating since jit-lock is turned on by default and other font-lock variables _are_ respected when jit-lock is active.
Below find two proposals: (1) Preserve the current state of affairs and provide the appropriate hints in the doc-string: (defcustom font-lock-lines-before 1 "*Number of lines before the changed text to include in refontification. This variable is not considered by `jit-lock-mode' and other Font lock support modes." :type 'integer :group 'font-lock :version "22.1") and the Elisp manual (which doesn't mention jit-lock so far): -- Variable: 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. This variable is not considered by `jit-lock-mode' and other Font lock support modes. (2) Modify `jit-lock-after-change' appropriately by, for example, inserting (forward-line (- font-lock-lines-before)) before (setq start (line-beginning-position)) I prefer proposal (1). _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel