Re: Fontification of citations in mail-Mode

[Sascha Wilde]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:57:25AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     IMHO, the reason is, if nothing else, that this is how Mail mode
>     behaved on a tty since v21.1, and users did not complain too loudly
>     (or we would have changed that).
> 
> Maybe hardly anyone used font lock on Rmail buffers in text consoles.

I'm not using Rmail, but mail-mode from sendmail.el with font lock on
a text console on a daily basis.  And I liked the old behavior better
-- but I guess you know that by now.  ;-)

Maybe introducing special faces for fontification in mail-mode, like
Eli suggested, would be the right thing to do, so anyone could
customize them without affecting fontification in other modes.

An other possibility might be to introduce a way to customize whether
to fontify the whole cited text or only the markers...

cheers
sascha
-- 
Sascha Wilde
    "Computers are good at following instructions,
     but not at reading your mind."
    D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9