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* font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-lock lower than maximal?
@ 2012-08-17 12:29 Vitalie Spinu
  2012-08-17 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2012-08-21 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 32+ messages in thread
From: Vitalie Spinu @ 2012-08-17 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


Hi, 

As a mode developer how can I set default font-lock level lower than
maximal (aka t)? 

For example, assume you are developing X-mode and some users would like
to have functions + numbers + other stuff highlighted, but you don't
want to activate those by default. So you can add font-lock keyword
levels (2, 3, 4 etc) to accommodate this preference, but want to set the
default to 2.

What is the emacs recommendation for how to cleanly achieve this without
interfering with user level font-lock-maximum-decoration?

It looks to me that emacs should set font-lock-maximum-decoration to a
number instead to `t' by default. Then mode developers can easily decide
what font-lock to activate by default by setting appropriate keywords up
to that level only, and everything else on a higher level.

Thanks, 
Vitalie.




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2012-08-17 12:29 font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-lock lower than maximal? Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-17 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-17 14:42   ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-17 15:57     ` font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a defaultfont-lock " Drew Adams
2012-08-17 19:49       ` font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default? Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-17 20:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-17 20:53           ` Drew Adams
2012-08-18  6:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19  2:32               ` Jason Rumney
2012-08-19  3:13                 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-19  3:34                   ` Jason Rumney
2012-08-19  4:39                     ` Drew Adams
2012-08-19 10:50                     ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-19 16:46                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 17:33                     ` Drew Adams
2012-08-19 10:34                 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-19 16:48                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-17 20:50         ` Drew Adams
2012-08-17 22:47           ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-18  7:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-18 10:10             ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-21 17:31               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-22 16:50                 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-26 18:27                 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-18  5:10         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-18 10:03           ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-19 11:10             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-19 11:47               ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-19 13:23                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-17 17:36     ` font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-lock lower than maximal? Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-21 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-26 18:26   ` font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-locklower " Drew Adams

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