From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vitalie Spinu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-lock lower than maximal? Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:29:12 +0200 Organization: EUR Message-ID: <87wr0x8zxj.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345206574 4000 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2012 12:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:29:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 14:29:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T2LgB-00036r-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:29:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2LgA-0004gl-70 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2Lg7-0004gU-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2Lg7-0006qz-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2Lg6-0006qq-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T2Lg3-0002ty-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:29:23 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.115.113.50 ([130.115.113.50]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:29:23 +0200 Original-Received: from spinuvit by 130.115.113.50 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:29:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.115.113.50 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:20LA7+qIkORV+kHJi6kysldhJSc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152609 Archived-At: 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.