Why not enable font lock by default?

[Jake Colman]

Stephen,

Would you be willing to post your C/C++ font-lock customizations (and your
.XDefault since I would want to see your general XEmacs colors too)?  I'm
using the colorset that was recommended in InfoDock but I'm always interested
in seeing other ways of doing things.

...Jake

>>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

   SJT> Jason Spiro writes:
   >> I wonder: why don't you set the default value of
   >> font-lock-auto-fontify to t?  It will help newbies who are just trying
   >> XEmacs for the first time.  Also, even GNU Emacs has nowadays enabled
   >> font lock by default: whoever doesn't want it can disable it manually.
   >> :)

   SJT> The big hindrance on 21.4 is that if you have the progress gauge
   SJT> widget enabled, you will very likely crash.

   SJT> I also think most of the font-locking configurations are pretty ugly,
   SJT> and have heavily customized my own.  But I'm not prepared to inflict my
   SJT> environment on unsuspecting newbies....  So, while I won't veto it if
   SJT> somebody else wants to, I am not going to do it myself.

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Jake Colman -- XEmacs Tinkerer