On Wed, Feb 09 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> 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? :)

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