From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new text property Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:03:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1023607376.8184.1228.camel@space-ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023721592 20008 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 15:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HQka-0005Cb-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:06:32 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HR7S-0002im-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HQkA-00053w-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HQhn-0004fb-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g5AF3ab12078; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:03:36 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id RAA23463; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:03:31 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 112A83B2EE; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:03:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic In-Reply-To: (Hrvoje Niksic's message of "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:07:02 +0200") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4706 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4706 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes: > >> As I understand, M-x font-lock-mode RET _is_ generic, despite the >> name. > > How have you come to that conclusion? There are different > highlighting mechanisms that have nothing to do with font-lock mode, > such as those used by Gnus and VM. Because there was a lengthy discussion to do just that: allow M-x font-lock-mode RET as the user interface for highlighting which is done in another way. >> But in the end, it doesn't make too much of a difference: >> font-lock-mode is just a general toggle for the mode to do >> highlighting however it likes to do that. > > You can overload font-lock-mode to mean that, but it has traditionally > not been the case. In Emacs, this overloading has happened some days ago. Hence this thread, xposted to xemacs-devel. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)