diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'lispref/modes.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/modes.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/modes.texi b/lispref/modes.texi index f7510540d0..9464f900d4 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 |