From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration API Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 23:42:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="53291"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 20 05:45:43 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSZF9-000Djm-64 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 05:45:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSZF8-0008Io-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 23:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSZEa-0008IH-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 23:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSZEZ-0008PW-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 23:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42304 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSZEY-0008P7-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 23:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSZEV-000Cwf-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 05:45:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:4cfG1J3m9m7OjgHPEs5BwxoNi80= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236772 Archived-At: > I've noticed that few major modes implement multiple levels of font-lock > decoration, which might be because it's more difficult to dynamically create > different font-lock keywords, but it also could be because there seems to be > no API for programmatically changing this value per major mode, as the > variable permits: Another reason might be that "levels" is not a very useful guide. E.g. I like my major modes to work hard to give useful font-lock highlighting, but I don't like it when they highlight everything. Stefan