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* Toning down font-lock
@ 2022-03-05 18:03 Augusto Stoffel
  2022-03-07 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Augusto Stoffel @ 2022-03-05 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

I would like to suggest extending `font-lock-maximum-decoration' so that
setting it to a negative number discards all major-mode keyword
fontification, keeping only syntactic highlight (i.e., strings and
comments).

I've been using such a setting for a long time and it's quite pleasant.

I'm also wondering if there is a more fine-grained mechanism to pick and
choose font-lock rules.  I guess not, so should there be one?

In my setup, I do lose some things that I find useful, such as highlight
of regexp grouping constructs or symbol names inside docstrings.
`font-lock-maximum-decoration' doesn't allow to activate these things
without activating coloring of functions and keywords, which I don't
like.  Making some font-lock faces equal to the default face is also a
very coarse measure, and leads to other problems, since the font-lock
faces are often abused for other purposes.



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2022-03-05 18:03 Toning down font-lock Augusto Stoffel
2022-03-07 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-07 19:25   ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-03-07 23:55     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-08 11:50       ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-03-08 15:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-10  7:42           ` Augusto Stoffel

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