GNU bug report logs - #50041
Add font-lock-doc-markup-face

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Message #17 received at 50041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 50041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50041: Add font-lock-doc-markup-face
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:12:50 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:08:59 +0200
> Cc: 50041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Which one of these justifies having these faces in font-lock.el, as
> > opposed in markdown mode itself, or in rst.el?
> 
> All of them -- it's not primarily intended for editing whole texts in those formats (and modes) but for doc comments specific to each programming language. Fontifying those is done by the respective language mode, such as haskell-mode or java-mode.
> 
> Sorry if I was unclear on that point. I've made the NEWS entry a bit less ambiguous.
> 
> >  It is unusual to have
> > mode-specific faces in a general-purpose Lisp file, let alone a
> > preloaded one.
> 
> The face is not mode-specific. It's like font-lock-doc-face.

Sorry, I still don't get it.  Could you show a couple of examples of
use of this face, and tell how these use cases are handled without
that face?  TIA.

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