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Re: Question about font-lock-compile-keywords


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Question about font-lock-compile-keywords
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:28:03 -0400

    font-lock-compile-keywords added an optional arg for Emacs 22. It looks,
    from a quick glance, as if a non-nil value for that arg gives behavior
    similar to what the function did in Emacs 21 and 20.

    Wouldn't it be better for the optional arg to be complemented, so that a
    value of nil gave (more or less) the pre-22 behavior? Wouldn't that make
    things easier for third-party libraries that call font-lock-compile-keywords
    (with no second arg)?

That seems like a good idea in principle, but which behavior do real
third-party libraries which use font-lock-compile-keywords actually
want?  (Are there really any?)





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