Re: adding a standard font-lock-number-face

[Glenn Morris]

Donald Ephraim Curtis wrote:

> Deadlock ::
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-mode/2011-June/001161.html

Quote from that link:

    Personally, I think it's overkill. I agree that making the default
    indistinguishable would lessen the fruit salad look, but I wonder if
    it's really all that useful.

> So python-mode/python.el *would*, but since Emacs doesn't have a
> "number-face" built in, they dare not.

That's not at all how I would summarize the mail you link to.