From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default? Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:50:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87wr0x8zxj.fsf@gmail.com> <831uj5bnid.fsf@gnu.org><87obm98trc.fsf@gmail.com><95FA6116C6194DAAA658F916B48C5E23@us.oracle.com> <874no12tan.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345236687 30582 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2012 20:51:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:51:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Vitalie Spinu'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 22:51:27 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 1T2TVs-0003RA-LN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:51:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2TVr-0007Wx-F4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2TVm-0007WU-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2TVg-0002SA-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:47255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2TVc-0002Ra-3P; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q7HKp56E012465 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:51:06 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7HKp4RT025713 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:51:05 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt112.oracle.com (abhmt112.oracle.com [141.146.116.64]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q7HKp45n005485; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:51:04 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:51:04 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <874no12tan.fsf_-_@gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac18sV+vqaIUSpcZRZiZ9CcIOLaP9wAAcgAw X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:152622 Archived-At: > > Yes, Emacs Dev concluded after many years that `t' is the > > most appropriate default value. > > Interesting. I am curious of reasons for that. Cannot see one > by myself, but I must be missing something. Actually, the default has been `t' for as long as I can recall. Eli has said it is since 20.1. Stefan has conjectured that it is ever since the variable has existed. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00799.html But these too might be of interest. Suggestion: start with the last. This useful feature (font-lock levels) is apparently already on its way to the trash heap (its removal is marked `pending' for 24.2). We will apparently soon have no choice in the matter - the behavior will be hard-coded as maximum decoration. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-06/msg00587.html http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6935#17 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6935#23 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6935#47