On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> erc does not use the font-lock machinery for coloring the erc buffers.
> If that is good or not I do not know. However there is a problem with
> that it currently use the 'face text property. This prevents hi-lock
> from working in its buffer which would otherwise be useful.
>
> Therefore please replace 'face with 'font-lock-face everywhere in erc.
>
> (I do not send a patch. I think it is just easier to make the change
> which is quite quick to make. I have tested it though.)

Could you send a patch, anyway?