* font-lock.el (font-lock-lines-before): Delete variable, subsumed by

the new extend-region feature.
(font-lock-after-change-function): Update correspondingly.
* jit-lock.el (jit-lock-after-change): Update correspondingly.
* progmodes/grep.el (font-lock-lines-before): Don't disable.
* modes.texi (Region to Fontify): Remove font-lock-lines-before.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index b7d93fe51bb..d273654500c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -873,11 +873,6 @@ fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
 `Info-mode-hook'.
 
 +++
-*** font-lock-lines-before specifies a number of lines before the
-current line that should be refontified when you change the buffer.
-The default value is 1.
-
-+++
 *** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that
 an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment,
 font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red