Re: org-mode and mode hooks.

[Richard Stallman]

    If you call font-lock-{add,remove}-keywords with nil for MODE inside a
    parent mode's body instead of its mode hook, the keyword is not
    enabled in the derived mode.  If the parent mode does call
    font-lock-{add,remove}-keywords in its mode hook, the keyword may not be
    enabled in the derived mode if any involved mode does not follow the
    new conventions.

Thanks.

I think the right solution is simply "don't do that, then".
Major mode functions should not call font-lock-add-keywords
or font-lock-remove-keywords (though the mode hooks may do so).

I will add this to the documentation of font-lock-add-keywords.

@strong{Warning:} major mode functions must not call
@code{font-lock-add-keywords} under any circumstances, either directly
or indirectly.  (This would lead to incorrect behavior for some minor
modes.)  They should set up for Font Lock mode by setting
@code{font-lock-keywords}.


    Problems remain with for minor modes that call
    font-lock-{add,remove}-keywords with nil for MODE and add it to the
    hook of a major mode that does not follow the conventions or has an
    ancestor that does not.  Do you consider this to be a problem that
    needs to be fixed before the next release?  Fixing it would require
    non-trivial changes to Font Lock.

We don't need to fix this.  Those modes should be fixed.


So, please install your patch.