From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about font-lock-compile-keywords Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:28:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158075031 27631 80.91.229.2 (12 Sep 2006 15:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 12 17:30:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNADL-00009f-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNADL-0007MG-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNABC-0006TG-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNABB-0006ST-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNABB-0006SI-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GNACh-0008AJ-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GNAB9-00034n-T7; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:28:03 -0400 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59730 Archived-At: font-lock-compile-keywords added an optional arg for Emacs 22. It looks, from a quick glance, as if a non-nil value for that arg gives behavior similar to what the function did in Emacs 21 and 20. Wouldn't it be better for the optional arg to be complemented, so that a value of nil gave (more or less) the pre-22 behavior? Wouldn't that make things easier for third-party libraries that call font-lock-compile-keywords (with no second arg)? That seems like a good idea in principle, but which behavior do real third-party libraries which use font-lock-compile-keywords actually want? (Are there really any?)