From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-lock-negation-char-face Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 08:15:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87oebnd0io.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115448943 31607 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 06:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 06:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 08:55:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUJDc-0000ZY-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 08:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUJLU-0002Pl-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 03:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUJ04-0001oC-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUJ03-0001nw-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUItw-0008SW-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUIh0-0004sr-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rocksteady (213.65.64.62) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.1.026.7) id 42650A3B0048DAB8; Sat, 7 May 2005 08:15:59 +0200 Original-Received: by rocksteady (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC8AB162; Sat, 7 May 2005 08:15:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 06 May 2005 18:32:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:36801 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36801 Stefan Monnier writes: > Let me just say that I find this new "feature" dubious. > - it makes things even more "angry fruit salad" and thus requires > yet more tweaking to make the text legible again. > - it's unclear that these specific chars are particular sources of errors. > - why not have a more generic name like font-lock-important-detail-face, > so it's at least not so absurdly narrow-scoped. Indeed, I find that it makes my code much harder to read. The choice of a bold face as default is especially bad. And as you say, I don't really think people write !foo erroneously all that often.