Re: Add ruby-mode.el configuration for font-face customization

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hello Justin,

On 24.04.2017 4:55, Justin Smestad wrote:
> I've been in the process of switching over to emacs and noticed the 
> syntax highlighter for `ruby-mode.el` is much less customizable than say 
> `python.el`.

Is that right? I don't see any python-...-face variables in 
lisp/progmodes/python.el.

> In an effort to make it more customizable, I created this 
> patch - 
> https://gist.github.com/jsmestad/d4ab36c94c5d22bb68a72d8d403b4cb7#file-ruby-mode-revised-patch 
> <https://gist.github.com/jsmestad/d4ab36c94c5d22bb68a72d8d403b4cb7#file-ruby-mode-revised-patch>
>
> A few things:
>
>   * Is this the right mailing list to discuss ruby-mode.el changes?

It is. Though a bug report probably would have worked better. The 
emacs-devel threads that are not replied to immediately tend to get lost 
in time.

>   * Are there better ways to do this?

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. How does this make highlighting 
"more vim-like"?

>   * What do you all think of the idea of font-face customizations for
>     the mode?

Not a huge fan, to be honest.

Ideally, we'd have a rich common set of font-lock faces that are 
consistently applied across all programming modes. And thus consistently 
signal syntactic elements in a language-agnostic way (where possible).

The users can then customize the font-lock faces, if they so wish.