Re: font-lock-negation-char-face

[Kim F. Storm]

"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?

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