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Re: font-lock-negation-char-face
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: font-lock-negation-char-face |
Date: |
Sat, 07 May 2005 22:17:42 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Henrik Enberg <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 08:15:59 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Let me just say that I find this new "feature" dubious.
>> > - it makes things even more "angry fruit salad" and thus requires
>> > yet more tweaking to make the text legible again.
>> > - it's unclear that these specific chars are particular sources of errors.
>> > - why not have a more generic name like font-lock-important-detail-face,
>> > so it's at least not so absurdly narrow-scoped.
>>
>> Indeed, I find that it makes my code much harder to read. The choice of
>> a bold face as default is especially bad. And as you say, I don't
>> really think people write !foo erroneously all that often.
>
> Let me join the choir and say that the effect of this change is
> unpleasant at best, IMO. I think this new feature should be at least
> turned off by default, if not removed.
And it makes wrong highlights too, e.g. the '!' in the following line:
xassert (s != NULL);
When was this new feature discussed?
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- font-lock-negation-char-face, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/06
- Re: font-lock-negation-char-face, Henrik Enberg, 2005/05/07
- Re: font-lock-negation-char-face, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/05/07
- Re: font-lock-negation-char-face, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/08
- Re: font-lock-negation-char-face, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/05/08
- Re: font-lock-negation-char-face, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/08
- Re: font-lock-negation-char-face, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/09
- Re: font-lock-negation-char-face, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/08