Re: compilation-mode, face, font-lock-face

[Davis Herring]

> OK, I can understand that if there is no display then there
> _cannot_ be any font-locking, so the `noninteractive' test
> makes sense, I guess.

Even that is questionable -- there are many (unfortunate) situations in 
which font-lock is used to apply syntactically meaningful properties to 
the text that might then be used by Lisp programs.  It's fine if 
font-lock skips configuring the lack of display, of course, and it could 
be OK for it to skip setting the face property (since a program that 
depended on examining it could be said to be broken).  But even then, 
what if a non-interactive Emacs is supposed to be running tests of 
font-lock itself?

Davis

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