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Re: More font-lock faces for tree-sitter


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: More font-lock faces for tree-sitter
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:29:34 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 08:10:31 -0700
> 
> For example, is there any benefit to adding `font-lock-number-face'?
> I don't think I've seen many language modes doing that so far.  Is there
> a high demand for it?  Is there a big benefit?  Personally, I don't feel
> confident answering that.

Other IDEs do provide this, AFAIR.

> Adding a face, especially a default one, is an implicit invitation to
> theme developers to use it.  If we add too many faces, we risk, in the
> worst case, seeing a proliferation of angry fruit salad.

That's where fontification levels should come in to give users control
on how angry their salad is.



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