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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 6935@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6935: 24.0.50; doc for `font-lock-maximum-decoration'
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:41:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk4n8mahe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AEE5D81322074846A7600B3A090366FB@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:54:58 -0700")

> This customization option lets users easily pick the level they want.
> Just yesterday I had a user report about this wrt Dired+ (my code had
> a bug that was preventing such a choice).  Users have different needs
> and preferences, and they do care about them.

2 reasons:
- rather than let people work around problems by reducing the level, we
  should work harder to make sure that the default level is OK
  for everyone.
- "level" is the wrong way to think about this.  Instead, we should have
  separate controls for different font-lock features.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-30 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-28  4:06 bug#6935: 24.0.50; doc for `font-lock-maximum-decoration' Drew Adams
2010-08-28 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-28 19:54   ` Drew Adams
2010-08-30 14:41     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-08-30 15:46       ` Drew Adams
2010-08-30 22:04         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-30 22:56           ` Drew Adams
2010-08-31 10:33             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-14 13:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 16:41   ` Drew Adams
2011-07-22  3:54   ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-31 15:00     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-31 16:31       ` Drew Adams

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