Re: Re: font-lock support mode in emacs 22

[martin rudalics]

> ... Turned out it was because the
> fontification of those lines were deferred, so the highlighting code
> couldn't copy the face information for them.

With stealth fontification turned off those lines won't get fontified
ever unless they are displayed.  You might want to look at the variable
`buffer-access-fontify-functions' to have `buffer-substring' calculate
the properties for you.