Subject: Re: bug#76687: global-hi-lock-mode prompts on its own help

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 13:39:38 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 13:56:37 -0500
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
>>
>> Perhaps as simple as adding help modes to hi-lock-exclude-modes?  It looks like hi-lock mode exclusion
>> logic might need a little improvement to honor derived modes.
>
> Any reason why Help mode should be exempt from global-hi-lock-mode?
> This bug report shows a single instance of that mode which perhaps
> needs to be fixed, so why disable the mode for all of the Help
> buffers?

First, isn't the bug here that you get a prompt despite there being no
Hi-lock lines?  Why would you prompt in that case?

Second, and orthogonally, perhaps special-mode should be in
hi-lock-exclude modes by default.