From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kill ring menu Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 11:46:05 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200205051746.g45Hk5P01808@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <1020022891.27106.142.camel@space-ghost> <200204290505.g3T55t006146@aztec.santafe.edu> <1020059236.31789.358.camel@space-ghost> <200204300519.g3U5Js306727@aztec.santafe.edu> <1020320725.27616.54.camel@space-ghost> <200205031825.g43IPuD00768@aztec.santafe.edu> <1020502030.5286.25.camel@space-ghost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020620930 25316 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2002 17:48:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 17:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 174Q7u-0006aD-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 19:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174QEf-0005xF-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 19:55:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174Q7L-0004SR-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174Q5G-0004Eh-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g45Hk5k27676; Sun, 5 May 2002 11:46:05 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g45Hk5P01808; Sun, 5 May 2002 11:46:05 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: walters@verbum.org In-Reply-To: <1020502030.5286.25.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 04 May 2002 04:47:10 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3610 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3610 It means that if the user decides they don't want any fontification (perhaps they find it distracting when viewing an *Occur* or *Kill Ring* buffer), then they can just use the normal font-lock mechanism for disabling fontification in those buffers. Or, conversely, if they do decide they want it, it's easy to enable; they can just type 'M-x font-lock-mode' to toggle things. It is a good, clean interface. I think every mode should be changed to respect font-lock-mode. That might be a valid point. It raises the question: whether it is better, in these modes that construct special text and can highlight it, to enable its highlighting by default, or to make it controllable with M-x font-lock-mode. In the past we've acted on the view that it is better to highlight these buffers by default, and the expectation that a considerable fraction of users won't use Font-Lock mode but will benefit from highlighting these special buffers.