I was wondering if you could make the following improvement to GNU Emacs: Make it so that fonts with a nil for background-colour have the fontification of the inner symbols shines through to appear over higher layers, like so: *abc* is fontified as a blue foreground with nil background "*abc*" is fontified in light blue background with a black foreground but should appear with a light blue background and a blue foreground. Here is the Elisp code that I want the behaviour of which changed: (set-face-foreground 'dmp-face--fg:blue "#000") (set-face-background 'dmp-face--fg:blue nil) ("\\*.*\\*" 0 'dmp-face--fg:blue t) -- Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. I am only allowed my computer once per week so that makes for a two-three week round trip in getting back to you.