On Monday, March 24, 2014, Bois Francois-Xavier <fxbois@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > font-lock-tag-name-face
> > > font-lock-tag-bracket-face
> >
> > These seem very HTML specific, so not really appropriate for
> font-lock-*-face.
> >
>
> I am thinking of markdown, apache-mode, wiki/ini-mode, org-mode (not
> sure for this one), and of course all the xml/html modes
>
> >
> > > font-lock-attr-name-face
> >
> > This one probably corresponds to "argument names", so in Lisp it could
> > be used for keyword symbols.  IOW I'm OK with adding such a face.
> >
> > > font-lock-attr-value-face
> >
> > AFAIK an attribute value is an expression, so I'm not sure why we'd want
> > to give it a special face.  I guess it's another way to say that this is
> > also too HTML-specific to make much sense for font-lock-*-face.
> >
> > > font-lock-symbol-face
> >
> > I have no idea what this one is, neither for HTML nor for any other mode.
>
> I was thinking of this kind of syntax (with js or ruby)
>
> {symbolX: "aa", symbolY: 123}


Can be used for Lisp's keyword type (:something) as well.