Re: hi-lock mode and special buffers

[Romain Francoise]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> The bug is "No highlight in compilation-minor-mode when hi-lock-mode
> is on", at

> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2005-11/msg00173.html

Thanks.

> The old behavior of hi-lock mode is that it sets the
> font-lock-defaults to '(nil) when it is turned on.

Two questions come to mind:

1. Why does it touch font-lock-defaults since it uses the
   self-sufficient function `font-lock-add-keywords'?

2. Why does it set font-lock-defaults to that value if it has no
   patterns to add anyway?

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