Re: font-lock-negation-char-face

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Henrik Enberg <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 08:15:59 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Let me just say that I find this new "feature" dubious.
> > - it makes things even more "angry fruit salad" and thus requires
> >   yet more tweaking to make the text legible again.
> > - it's unclear that these specific chars are particular sources of errors.
> > - why not have a more generic name like font-lock-important-detail-face,
> >   so it's at least not so absurdly narrow-scoped.
> 
> Indeed, I find that it makes my code much harder to read.  The choice of
> a bold face as default is especially bad.  And as you say, I don't
> really think people write !foo erroneously all that often.

Let me join the choir and say that the effect of this change is
unpleasant at best, IMO.  I think this new feature should be at least
turned off by default, if not removed.