From: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default?
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:47:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obm916hl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F942CE37B234458B9651C23C6C157D06@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:50:56 -0700")
>> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> on Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:50:56 -0700 wrote:
>> > Yes, Emacs Dev concluded after many years that `t' is the
>> > most appropriate default value.
>>
>> Interesting. I am curious of reasons for that. Cannot see one
>> by myself, but I must be missing something.
> Actually, the default has been `t' for as long as I can recall. Eli has said it
> is since 20.1. Stefan has conjectured that it is ever since the variable has
> existed.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00799.html
Apparently it is t from 1997 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/66833/match=font+lock+maximum+decoration
> But these too might be of interest. Suggestion: start with the last. This
> useful feature (font-lock levels) is apparently already on its way to the trash
> heap (its removal is marked `pending' for 24.2). We will apparently soon have
> no choice in the matter - the behavior will be hard-coded as maximum
> decoration.
That's funny. Probably the most subjective part of Emacs, fontification,
is left without even basic customization?
If that happens, every mode will try to reinvent its own font-lock
levels and implement its own user settings. IMHO this is chaos and
clearly a regression.
Most of people agree on the basic fontification. Trouble comes for
higher levels. Could it be please reset to the default of 2?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-17 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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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