Emacs Lisp and Lisp mode font-locking

Emacs Lisp and Lisp mode font-locking

[Bozhidar Batsov]

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Hi guys,

I've noticed something odd about the font-locking in Emacs Lisp and Lisp
mode - keyword args are highlighted using the font-lock-builtin-face and
constructs like &optional are highlighted using font-lock-type-face.

I guess this was was done way back and hasn't been updated in a while, but
I think it might a good idea to revise this. Pretty sure those font faces
are intended for different usage. I think it would be great if all Emacs
programming modes used the faces consistently, so that the meaning of
certain faces doesn't change from mode to mode.

I guess that the two modes might also start using the font-lock-built-in
face to highlight their core functions (like car, cdr, mapcar, mapc, etc) -
as Clojure mode does.

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Re: Emacs Lisp and Lisp mode font-locking

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi Bozhidar,

> I've noticed something odd about the font-locking in Emacs Lisp and
> Lisp mode - keyword args are highlighted using the
> font-lock-builtin-face and constructs like &optional are highlighted
> using font-lock-type-face. 
>
> I guess this was was done way back and hasn't been updated in a
> while, but I think it might a good idea to revise this. Pretty sure
> those font faces are intended for different usage. I think it would
> be great if all Emacs programming modes used the faces consistently,
> so that the meaning of certain faces doesn't change from mode to
> mode.
>
> I guess that the two modes might also start using the
> font-lock-built-in face to highlight their core functions (like car,
> cdr, mapcar, mapc, etc) - as Clojure mode does.

Typically, if you get no answer here, nobody disagrees, and nobody wants
to care about it at the moment.  Please make a bug report.  Please give
some details what exactly should be changed, e.g. which faces should be
used instead of the ones you don't want to use.  Then, I hope someone
will have a look sooner or later.


Regards,

Michael.