From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-lock-negation-char-face Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 12:57:06 +0300 Message-ID: <01c552eb$Blat.v2.4$45f05e20@zahav.net.il> References: <87oebnd0io.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115462555 28814 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 10:42:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 10:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 12:42:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUMl7-0003lq-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 12:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUMt0-0006YZ-JO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 06:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUMIL-0000gG-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 06:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUMEE-00071e-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 06:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUMEB-0006u7-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 06:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUMBT-0002Av-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 06:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-80-230-69-180.inter.net.il [80.230.69.180]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id BDW12504 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 7 May 2005 12:59:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <87oebnd0io.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> (message from Henrik Enberg on Sat, 07 May 2005 08:15:59 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36806 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36806 > From: Henrik Enberg > Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 08:15:59 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > > Let me just say that I find this new "feature" dubious. > > - it makes things even more "angry fruit salad" and thus requires > > yet more tweaking to make the text legible again. > > - it's unclear that these specific chars are particular sources of errors. > > - why not have a more generic name like font-lock-important-detail-face, > > so it's at least not so absurdly narrow-scoped. > > Indeed, I find that it makes my code much harder to read. The choice of > a bold face as default is especially bad. And as you say, I don't > really think people write !foo erroneously all that often. Let me join the choir and say that the effect of this change is unpleasant at best, IMO. I think this new feature should be at least turned off by default, if not removed.