Re: Global Font Lock by default

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

  > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
  > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
  > > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:35:21 -0800
  > > 
  > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
  > > 
  > >   > Btw, whatever solution we decide upon, we should make sure that
  > >   > invoking Emacs with --colors switch does TRT, even if the argument to
  > >   > this option is different from the default number of supported colors
  > >   > (the one in effect at dump time).
  > > 
  > > Can you please check if everything works how you want it after we are
  > > done with having global-font-lock-mode on by default?
  > 
  > I will try, but I have very little free time these days, so it might
  > be a while until I get to it.
  > 
  > > I am not 100% sure I know what the intended behavior of --color is.
  > 
  > That could mean that the documentation is not clear enough.  Could you
  > tell what is unclear in the manual where it describes this option?

Looking at it again it might be that there are some (simple) bugs in
the way colors are initialized.

For example: on a 256 colors xterm, what should list-colors-display
show when using --color=8? The same as it would on a 8 color xterm
(and no --color options)?