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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/font-lock.el | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/font-lock.el b/lisp/font-lock.el index 3f81de0b144..dc1af6c61d7 100644 --- a/lisp/font-lock.el +++ b/lisp/font-lock.el @@ -288,6 +288,11 @@ If a number, only buffers greater than this size have fontification messages." ;; We now allow a FACENAME in `font-lock-keywords' to be any expression that ;; returns a face. So the easiest thing is to continue using these variables, ;; rather than sometimes evaling FACENAME and sometimes not. sm. + +;; Note that in new code, in the vast majority of cases there is no +;; need to create variables that specify face names. Simply using +;; faces directly is enough. Font-lock is not a template to be +;; followed in this area. (defvar font-lock-comment-face 'font-lock-comment-face "Face name to use for comments.") |