From: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Support for fontification with anonymous faces
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:48:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pnq8n3x9.fsf@metalevel.at> (raw)
Dear all,
the Elisp info material states in "39.12 Faces":
Many parts of Emacs require named faces, and do not accept
anonymous faces. These include the functions documented in Attribute
Functions, and the variable ‘font-lock-keywords’ (see Search-based
Fontification). Unless otherwise stated, we will use the term “face”
to refer only to named faces.
However, when I start Emacs with "emacs -Q", and then evaluate in
the *scratch* buffer the form:
(progn
(font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("hello" 0 '(:background "green")) t))
(insert "hello"))
then I see that "hello" is inserted and highlighted in green, apparently
due to search-based fontification where an anonymous face is specified!
I am currently working on an application where this functionality (i.e.,
anonymous faces that can be specified for fontification) would be
extremely useful. Could you please consider supporting this feature,
and - if this already works as intended - officially document it?
This is also filed as issue #35005, where Eli suggested to ask here.
Thank you and all the best!
Markus
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