Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default?

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
  >> on Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:34:15 +0800 wrote:

  > "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
  >> Uh, where do you see ANYTHING there that supports the claim that "the" 
reason
  >> why the variable was _introduced_ in the first place was "to get snappier
  >> display"?

  > To have this suddenly become an issue in 2012 is somewhat of a surprise.

Issue in 2012 is unrelated to performance. And for some reason this
thread is drifting away from the original request. 

The request was to set font-lock-maximum-decoration to 2, in order to
give to mode developers a much higher flexibility in choosing the
default highlighting, and providing users with higher optional levels
of fortification.

Setting it to t, or removing altogether, imposes one-side-fits-all
philosophy, which is absurd in the case of such a subjective matter as
font-lock.

Vitalie.