Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make font-lock honor parents mode of current major-mode

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> This allows to add font-lock keyword to prog-mode directly, so every other
>>> children mode will use them.
>> 
>> Making inheritance work with font-lock keywords is a good idea, but this
>> is the wrong way to do it.  The right way is to take advantage of the
>> way inheritance works.  E.g. use a variable which modes would
>> *modify* rather than just set.  E.g. somehow convince all modes to use
>> the equivalent of font-lock-add-keywords.

> I may not have enough knowledge of modes and font-lock to understand the
> way you describe. Would you mind ellaboring a bit so I can maybe work on
> that? :)

If modes *add* keywords to `font-lock-new-keywords', then children of
prog-mode will automatically inherit the prog-mode's keyword since
variables set by the parent are carried to the child.

So, I think we should change font-lock.el so that major modes setup
font-lock keywords by adding them to a variable.  For backward
compatibility, the keywords listed in font-lock-defaults would be added,
of course.


        Stefan