[drew.adams@oracle.com: Help on font-lock-add-keywords: APPEND is a poor name.]

[drew.adams@oracle.com: Help on font-lock-add-keywords: APPEND is a poor name.]

[Richard M. Stallman]

I think it would be good to rename this argument to HOW.
Would someone like to do that?

Please don't change the special value `set'.  I think that symbol is
good for the job.

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Both Info and the doc string for font-lock-add-keywords name the
optional argument APPEND.  However, its possible values show that this
is a poor name.  A better name might be HOW or WHERE. The values are:

 - nil: add to the front
 - `set': replace the entire current value
 - other non-nil: append to the rear

Also, a better value than `set' for the replacement function would be
`replace'.


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Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: Help on font-lock-add-keywords: APPEND is a poor name.]

[Romain Francoise]

"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I think it would be good to rename this argument to HOW.
> Would someone like to do that?

I've done that.

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