Re: font-lock-syntactic-keywords obsolet?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/19/2016 04:31 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Simply because these scans are done on the change region of
> before/after-change-functions (as expanded), not on the entire tail of
> the buffer.  In CC Mode, all the uses of the syntax-table property are
> "local"; a buffer change in an earlier part of the buffer (aside from
> crude syntactic things like inserting unclosed comment/string
> delimiters) cannot affect the properties on the current part of the
> buffer.

So if I remove a closing brace somewhere near the beginning of the 
buffer, it still can't affect text properties near the end?

If so, what if I remove a closing double-quote instead?