From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Grep and font-lock Date: 26 Apr 2004 12:07:01 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <102F157B-9374-11D8-991C-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082967533 16309 80.91.224.253 (26 Apr 2004 08:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 26 10:18:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BI1KA-0000k2-00 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:18:46 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BI1KA-00054K-00 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:18:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BI1I2-0004VM-LW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:16:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BI1He-0004UL-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BI1BK-0003ZS-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BI196-0002Xw-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 18903 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2004 08:07:17 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 26 Apr 2004 08:07:17 -0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22157 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22157 Richard Stallman writes: > That being said, I think we should change the default of font-lock to > "on": new users consider it a great and helpful feature and are used > to getting it from their editors and on relying on this sort of syntax > analysis. > > Maybe you are right. What do others think? Generally speaking, I think font-lock should be on by default. As this poses a problem to some users, adding the -bw switch seems like a simple way to overcome those problems. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk