Re: Fontification of citations in mail-Mode

[Richard Stallman]

    IMHO, the reason is, if nothing else, that this is how Mail mode
    behaved on a tty since v21.1, and users did not complain too loudly
    (or we would have changed that).

Maybe hardly anyone used font lock on Rmail buffers in text consoles.

I don't know how to try changing this, because I can't even tell
which clause in the defface is used.  How would I find that out?

(defface font-lock-comment-face
  '((((class grayscale) (background light))
     (:foreground "DimGray" :weight bold :slant italic))
    (((class grayscale) (background dark))
     (:foreground "LightGray" :weight bold :slant italic))
    (((class color) (min-colors 88) (background light))
     (:foreground "Firebrick"))
    (((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark))
     (:foreground "chocolate1"))
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background light))
     (:foreground "red"))
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background dark))
     (:foreground "red1"))
    (((class color) (min-colors 8) (background light))
     (:foreground "red"))
    (((class color) (min-colors 8) (background dark))
     (:foreground "red1"))
    (t (:weight bold :slant italic)))