Re: Why not enable font lock by default?
2007/6/29, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>:
Jason Spiro writes:
> I wonder: why don't you set the default value of
> font-lock-auto-fontify to t? It will help newbies who are just trying
> XEmacs for the first time. Also, even GNU Emacs has nowadays enabled
> font lock by default: whoever doesn't want it can disable it manually.
> :)
The big hindrance on 21.4 is that if you have the progress gauge
widget enabled, you will very likely crash.
I also think most of the font-locking configurations are pretty ugly,
and have heavily customized my own. But I'm not prepared to inflict my
environment on unsuspecting newbies.... So, while I won't veto it if
somebody else wants to, I am not going to do it myself.
The progress gauge widget works fine for me on the XEmacs 21.4 that
came with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. But I suppose this is a concern that
does affect other people. Still, perhaps you could auto-enable
font-lock if you detect that the user is running XEmacs 21.5 or
higher?
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