Re: font-lock-negation-char-face

[Henrik Enberg]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Let me just say that I find this new "feature" dubious.
> - it makes things even more "angry fruit salad" and thus requires
>   yet more tweaking to make the text legible again.
> - it's unclear that these specific chars are particular sources of errors.
> - why not have a more generic name like font-lock-important-detail-face,
>   so it's at least not so absurdly narrow-scoped.

Indeed, I find that it makes my code much harder to read.  The choice of
a bold face as default is especially bad.  And as you say, I don't
really think people write !foo erroneously all that often.