Re: AW: Same coloring as GNU Emacs not possible due to fewer face types

Joachim> In GNU Emacs, the options and parameters to commands have Joachim> a different color to the rest of the text, whereas in Joachim> XEmacs they do not, regardless of with or without Joachim> color-theme. This lead me to the conclusion that XEmacs Joachim> simply does not support as many faces as GNU. It's more likely that XEmacs supports _different_ faces from GNU, or even the same face with different names. XEmacs most definitely supports a more complex definition of "face". You need to find out what faces the code is trying to use. Second, the highlighting code typically allows different levels of decoration. GNU may default to a higher level of decoration. See the menu, Options -> Syntax Highlighting -> Level. Joachim> My question is not about usability of color-theme Joachim> together with XEmacs, it is about the number of faces. Number of faces is not a problem. There are _far_ too _many_ faces. The problem is that each application defines its own, even though they could be reused (in XEmacs; it's possible that GNU Emacs doesn't support a flexible-enough inheritance scheme). Tracking down all that information is a massive and mostly profitless pain in the neck, which is why neither the upstream authors nor XEmacs maintainers like to do it. Joachim> Nevertheless, is it true that there are fewer faces or is Joachim> there anything I could configure (easily) to get the Joachim> additional faces? No, and probably. Finding out what to configure is the problem. The other possibility is that GNU has added new font-lock highlighting "types" that we haven't gotten around to synching yet. If somebody would take a look and tell us what, it's probably easy enough to do. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.