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26.1; Make hi-lock-face-defaults customizable

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
Cc: 32829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#32829: 26.1; Make hi-lock-face-defaults customizable
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:16:00 +0100

Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe> writes:

> It think that `hi-lock-face-defaults` would benefit from being
> made customizable.  Since the user can customize Emacs's theme and
> faces, the user should also be able to customize `hi-lock-face-defaults`
> so that the highlight faces work well with their customized color theme.

I don't see any reason why not, so I've now done so in Emacs 29.

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>> It think that `hi-lock-face-defaults` would benefit from being
>> made customizable.  Since the user can customize Emacs's theme and
>> faces, the user should also be able to customize `hi-lock-face-defaults`
>> so that the highlight faces work well with their customized color theme.
>
> I think the problem of hi-lock-face-defaults is its too limited palette.
>
> Wouldn't it be more easy to define a palette of colors rather than faces?

That would be even better -- this probably shouldn't be face-based at
all, but use colours.

But perhaps some people like to use, like, italics and bolds for this,
in which case faces are more flexible.

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