Re: adding a standard font-lock-number-face

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 15:38, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> An argument I can think of for inclusion is that it seems highlighting
>> those kind of stuff (event operators) is really common on other
>> editors, so it is acceptable that people coming from other places
>> would expect this kind of stuff highlighted out-of-the-box.  I know the
>
> I haven't seen many complaints about it either in emacs-devel or
> gnu-emacs-help, so I don't think it makes much difference.  People do
> not expect one editor to behave exactly like another.

I have a module, ocr-user.el in nXhtml which highlight OCR numbers
(with digits in groups of 3) so I can more safely pay my bills through
the internet. Maybe that can be enhanced and used?