Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration API

[Stefan Monnier]

> I've noticed that few major modes implement multiple levels of font-lock
> decoration, which might be because it's more difficult to dynamically create
> different font-lock keywords, but it also could be because there seems to be
> no API for programmatically changing this value per major mode, as the
> variable permits:

Another reason might be that "levels" is not a very useful guide.
E.g. I like my major modes to work hard to give useful font-lock
highlighting, but I don't like it when they highlight everything.


        Stefan