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31.0.50; Add note about font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search usage

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77005: 31.0.50; Add note about font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search usage
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:24:07 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 77005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:57:45 -0600
>>
>>  My idea is to add a kind of note to font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search documentation in lispref
>>  tex file to avoid any confusion that this can be used in minor modes.
>>
>>  I wonder why is this necessary. Minor modes are not supposed to affect font-lock in the first place, are
>>  they?
>>
>> Right, they should not, however for case-insensitive fontification this can lead to newcomer users that wants
>> to define a minor mode (such as for highlight something) use this variable.
>>
>> Otherwise this bug could already be closed.
>
> Stefan, WDYT?

I'd tend to agree with Eli.

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