Re: Standard faces not working with font-lock-keywords

[Stefan Monnier]

> No, it's just an expression -- for the standard font-lock faces there
> are variable names that are _exactly_ the same as the face names,
> which evaluate to the corresponding face name.

> [I think this is silly and confusing, but font-lock is verrrrry old...]

But as you know, this has proved useful for various users who wanted
different font-lock-*-face in different modes: if the keywords were using
quoted symbols, that would have required buffer-local faces (which we still
don't have: any progress on this side?), whereas the use of the
indirection through variables made it possible.


        Stefan