On 6/7/05, Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (defcustom comint-mode-hook '(turn-on-font-lock)
>
> Shouldn't we remove that? Is it a desirable thing, nowadays,
> for some modes to enable Font Lock on their own, instead of letting
> the user do so if he wants?
>
> Unless Miles objects, I will install the following mini-patch to comint.el:
I have no idea.
If I recall correctly, the reason I added that is because I replaced
some previous ad-hoc highlighting code -- which was always turned on
-- with font-lock.
In Emacs 21, the behavior was that comint prompts were _always_
highlighted, but font-lock could be turned on to add other faces
(e.g., colorization of error messages). When I changed the
prompt-highlighting code I turned on font-lock by default because
highlighted prompts were the previous default behavior, and I figured
the prompts were the most "important" part of comint highlighting.
So this patch would change the default appearance of comint prompts in
Emacs 22. I don't know if the average user would be annoyed/confused
("my prompts disappeared!") or happy ("ah those evil colorized prompts
are gone!") by such a change.
-Miles
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