Subject: Re: font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search doc and usage

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:56:31 -0500

> font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search docstring should make it more clear
> that font-lock-defaults erases it.

Okay, I changed it to make it hopefully clearer.

> There is one victim in the tree.  `lisp-mode' does:
>
>   (make-local-variable 'font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search)
>   (setq font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search t)
>
> but the value of font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search in a lisp-mode
> buffer is nil, that's because font-lock-defaults does a
> kill-local-variable on it...

Great catch.  No one has complained about this, so clearly it's OK for
font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search to be nil.  I removed the bogus
8-year-old setting of font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search.