> outline is supposed to highlight the eight different heading levels in a way that
> is easy to distinguish between them.  I do not see such a capability at this time.
>
> Settings up different colours is also quite complicated and confusing.  I have originally
> discussed this on "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org", who encouraged me to send a bug report.
>
> I do not get different heading colours for the three heading levels below.
> Philip has mentioned the possibility that the wrong face is being applied.
>
> --------- test.el --------
>
> ;;; * heading 1
> ;; comments
> ;;;; ** subheading 1.1
> ;; comments
> ;;;;; *** subsubheading 1.1.1
> ;; comments

Thank you very much for the bug report.  This is really a bug
that should be fixed by the following patch: