From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Brockman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:50:21 +0200 Message-ID: <871x8a6eb6.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> References: <87wtq3ydmf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <01c557be$Blat.v2.4$09ac0b80@zahav.net.il> <85hdh79rif.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8664xnrkn4.fsf@niamh.cfhp.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116018338 17233 80.91.229.2 (13 May 2005 21:05:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 21:05:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 13 23:05:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWhL7-0002Co-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 23:05:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWhUH-0006SG-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 17:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWhDK-0003R9-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 16:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWhDH-0003QW-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 16:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWhDF-0003Hl-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 16:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DWhFM-0005IJ-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 16:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DWgz2-0007n5-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 22:42:10 +0200 Original-Received: from c-54b670d5.028-10-67766c2.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([213.112.182.84]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 22:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by c-54b670d5.028-10-67766c2.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 22:42:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-54b670d5.028-10-67766c2.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se X-Face: :&2UWGm>e24)ip~'K@iOsA&JT3JX*v@1-#L)=dUb825\Fwg#`^N!Y*g-TqdS AevzjFJe96f@V'ya8${57/T'"mTd`1o{TGYhHnVucLq!D$r2O{IN)7>.0op_Y`%r;/Q +(]`3F-t10N7NF\.Mm0q}p1:%iqTi:5]1E]rDF)R$9.!,Eu'9K':y9^U3F8UCS1M+A$ 8[[[WT^`$P[vu>P+8]aQMh9giu&fPCqLW2FSsGs User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oE6rYSeM4fRJD07BUSzu2MJmRZQ= 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:37098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37098 >>>>> Please, let's rename this new face to something sensible like >>>>> mail-citation-prefix-face (or the same without the "-face" >>>>> suffix) and stop the madness about comment delimiters. >>>> >>>> FWIW, I agree 100%. >>> >>> FWIW, me too. >> >> AOL > > FWIW[0], I completely, entirely, and totally agree. I think comments look better when the delimiters appear in a slightly more washed-out color. Having the delimiters and text in completely different colors is just distracting, but I find a slight difference in color actually helps me focus on the text. It's not a big deal, but I just wanted to mention that while the current implementation may be lacking, I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea. (Though as Richard has been saying, it would be cleaner to instead add `font-lock-comment-text-face'.) I don't think the feature is trivial, and it is currently very rough. For example, it would be nice to have comments such as the following be fontified in the expected way: /* * foobarbaz.c --- do that stuff with the thing * * This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published * by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, * or (at your option) any later version. * * [...] */ I understand the people who think that the best thing to do for now is to rename the face to refer to mail specifically and ``stop the madness about comment delimiters,'' as Stefan put it. This feature can wait until after the release. -- Daniel Brockman