Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, let me try to be constructive instead of just trying to shoot down > the feature. > > How 'bout we change the current buggy code and replace it with something > more general (and thus more useful to those people who aren't among the > rare few who use 8 color ttys and whose red is not readable and who haven't > already changed their font-lock colors): > > Introduce font-lock-comment-keywords which would basically work like > font-lock-keywords, except it's applied only to comments (with the buffer > narrowed to just the comment so that comment-start-skip matches correctly, > without needing font-lock-comment-start-skip). This way we could highlight > all nested comments in SML, or we could highlight the "*" used on some > continuation lines in some multiline C commenting styles, and people could > set it to nil if they don't care about the feature, and major modes could > add stuff to it, e.g. to highlight javadoc directives, ...
That would be excellent -- after the release. Since there is such a good way to DTRT, I definitely think the current comment delimiter highlighting should be removed. JM2c. -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
