From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kill ring menu Date: 06 May 2002 15:46:47 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6w993jc.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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> <200205051746.g45Hk5P01808@aztec.santafe.edu> <1020662101.5288.76.camel@space-ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020694086 19096 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2002 14:08:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:08:06 +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 174j9p-0004xt-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 16:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174jH1-0007xN-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 16:15:31 +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 174hIB-0006oI-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 08:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174cHi-00067a-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 02:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 174cGm-0000Gi-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 15:46:48 +0900 Original-To: Colin Walters In-Reply-To: <1020662101.5288.76.camel@space-ghost> Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.1.3 on Linux/i686) 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:3637 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3637 >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters writes: Colin> I assert (without any statistics) that the vast majority of Colin> users put (global-font-lock-mode 1) in their ~/.emacs file Colin> (thereby loading font-lock.el), and expect fontification in Colin> every mode, I have no statistics (nobody does) on .emacs content, but I can say that "how do I turn on font-lock permanently everywhere" is a Top 10 FAQ (since XEmacs doesn't have `global-font-lock-mode'), and "who do I tell to add font-lock to some-unusual-mode" probably doesn't hit the Top 10, but it's a regular. Colin> while the remaining portion don't want any fontification at Colin> all. I'm a counter-example, possibly because at root I'm a Henry Ford acolyte: "You can have your [text] in any color you want, as long as it's black." I don't like font-lock in text/plain, but I do like it in program source and I do like color ls. To be honest, my impression is that everybody likes font lock (except maybe Jerry Pournelle), it's just that some people want it sometimes, and some people want it always. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py