From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: font-lock-comment-delimiter-face
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:01:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oeb7l0pb.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvu0kz8ems.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 19 May 2005 10:44:27 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> BTW, let me try to be constructive instead of just trying to shoot down
> the feature.
>
> How 'bout we change the current buggy code and replace it with something
> more general (and thus more useful to those people who aren't among the
> rare few who use 8 color ttys and whose red is not readable and who haven't
> already changed their font-lock colors):
>
> Introduce font-lock-comment-keywords which would basically work like
> font-lock-keywords, except it's applied only to comments (with the buffer
> narrowed to just the comment so that comment-start-skip matches correctly,
> without needing font-lock-comment-start-skip). This way we could highlight
> all nested comments in SML, or we could highlight the "*" used on some
> continuation lines in some multiline C commenting styles, and people could
> set it to nil if they don't care about the feature, and major modes could
> add stuff to it, e.g. to highlight javadoc directives, ...
That would be excellent -- after the release.
Since there is such a good way to DTRT, I definitely think
the current comment delimiter highlighting should be removed.
JM2c.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-19 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-23 22:51 font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-04-24 9:59 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-24 18:43 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Kim F. Storm
2005-04-24 20:27 ` Feature freeze (was Re: font-lock-comment-delimiter-face) Glenn Morris
2005-04-24 21:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-04-24 21:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-26 10:05 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-25 16:05 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-04-25 22:20 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-26 20:58 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
2005-05-11 16:25 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-11 19:51 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
2005-05-13 1:34 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-13 3:45 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
2005-05-14 0:26 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-13 4:11 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
2005-05-13 8:21 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Kim F. Storm
2005-05-13 13:15 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-13 13:36 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face David Kastrup
2005-05-13 19:27 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Edward O'Connor
2005-05-13 20:50 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Daniel Brockman
2005-05-14 0:25 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-14 1:25 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Nick Roberts
2005-05-14 15:12 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-14 22:43 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Nick Roberts
2005-05-14 23:55 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Paul Pogonyshev
2005-05-15 9:48 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face David Kastrup
2005-05-15 22:39 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-15 22:50 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face David Kastrup
2005-05-16 19:28 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 20:09 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Edward O'Connor
2005-05-18 22:44 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-19 0:01 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Lute Kamstra
2005-05-19 13:02 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
2005-05-19 14:44 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
2005-05-19 15:01 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2005-05-20 21:57 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-19 15:01 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Kim F. Storm
2005-05-19 15:46 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face David Kastrup
2005-05-19 16:52 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Dan Nicolaescu
2005-05-20 21:56 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-21 17:51 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Dan Nicolaescu
2005-05-15 15:58 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-18 18:02 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Romain Francoise
2005-05-14 16:11 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Ralf Angeli
2005-05-15 15:59 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-15 17:34 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Ralf Angeli
2005-05-16 3:55 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-16 8:16 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Ralf Angeli
2005-05-16 21:20 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 7:30 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Ralf Angeli
2005-05-18 23:22 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-13 0:11 font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Lute Kamstra
2005-05-13 3:37 ` font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Stefan Monnier
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