Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth

[Edward O'Connor]

>> languages, not the intersection.  There should, for instance, be a
>> font-lock-symbol-face for languages with distinguished symbols such
>> as Lisp, Scheme and Ruby.
>
> What for?

I imagine Steve doesn't mean all Lisp symbols, but rather keywords
(currently font locked with font-lock-builtin-face). I believe they're
the closest analogue to Ruby's symbols.


Ted