Re: More font-lock faces for tree-sitter

[Yuan Fu]

> On Oct 28, 2022, at 8:29 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 

More font-lock faces would be nice, but hopefully they are not too random (and 
we don’t bikeshed on them), and new ones should inherit from existing ones, so 
theme authors don’t need to update their theme.

Yuan