Timeline for Determine the face(s) that would be applied to a character inserted at point, after font-lock does its thing?

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Sep 3, 2018 at 21:34	comment	added	zwol		@Stefan That was just an example - the actual syntactic situation is too complicated for `(syntax-ppss)` to be any help, unfortunately.
Sep 3, 2018 at 20:04	comment	added	Stefan		BTW, you question mentions "in code but not in strings or comments". You can test that with `(nth 8 (syntax-ppss))`
Sep 3, 2018 at 15:14	answer	added	Stefan		timeline score: 3
Sep 3, 2018 at 14:01	comment	added	zwol		@Stefan However, thank you for telling me about `post-self-insert-hook`, I'm going to look at whether it will help.
Sep 3, 2018 at 14:00	comment	added	zwol		@Stefan The trouble is that `~` (or whatever) has syntactic significance in itself and will probably be given a different face than the one `x` would be.
Sep 3, 2018 at 13:02	comment	added	Stefan		Indeed, sorry: please replace `x` in my comment with `~` (or whatever is the "squigle" you're trying to electrify). I posted it as a comment because it is not an answer to your question, only a side remark about the definition you posted.
Sep 2, 2018 at 21:18	comment	added	zwol		@Stefan I'm not trying to make something special happen when `x` is inserted. I'm trying to make something special happen, upon insertion of several different characters none of which is `x`, when `x` would be given a particular face if it had been the character inserted.
Sep 1, 2018 at 3:29	comment	added	Stefan		I'll recommend you don't rebind the key to a new command, but that you instead use `post-self-insert-hook` and put there a function which checks if `x` was just inserted (with the additional conditions you want). This will be more likely to correctly interact with other forms of electricity!
Sep 1, 2018 at 1:26	history	asked	zwol	CC BY-SA 4.0