From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration API
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 23:42:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwoilyes3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m27ealolcy.fsf@paulwrankin.com
> I've noticed that few major modes implement multiple levels of font-lock
> decoration, which might be because it's more difficult to dynamically create
> different font-lock keywords, but it also could be because there seems to be
> no API for programmatically changing this value per major mode, as the
> variable permits:
Another reason might be that "levels" is not a very useful guide.
E.g. I like my major modes to work hard to give useful font-lock
highlighting, but I don't like it when they highlight everything.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-20 3:42 UTC|newest]
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2019-05-20 3:28 font-lock-maximum-decoration API Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 3:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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