Re: Fontification of citations in mail-Mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:04:58 +0200
> 
> > Failing that, here's a suggestion for a more complicated solution:
> > define special faces for Mail mode, so that they could be customized
> > without affecting general-purpose faces such as comment face.
> 
> Message mode already has numerous faces to play with...
> 
> I fail to see the rationale for extending mail-mode, when we
> already have another mode that DTRT...

The rationale is that I don't think we should deprecate modes that
still work well and are maintained.

> Would (defalias 'mail-mode 'message-mode) work?

I don't know, but I'm quite sure now is not the time for such
changes.