bug#62370: 28.1; sieve-mode: faces should inherit from font-lock-X-face faces

[Trent W. Buck]

On Thu 23 Mar 2023 08:58:09 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:05:24 +1100
> > From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> >     62370@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I don't think "I opened foo.sieve in Emacs 20 twenty years ago, and
> > now I opened foo.sieve in Emacs 30 today, and the colors aren't identical, 
> > and now I'm mad"
> > is a good argument for never changing the defaults.
>
> From my POV, it _is_ a good argument.  Especially when the defaults
> change in a feature that is easily customizable, and so basically you
> are asking to impose your preferences, which are easily catered to by
> your local customizations, on everyone else.
>
> > Emacs changes the defaults like that ALL THE TIME.
>
> That's not true.  We do that rarely and sparingly, precisely for the
> reasons you consider unimportant.
>
> > If they piss me off, I just patch back in the old behaviour and forget 
> > about it.
>
> You can do the same with the current defaults, so why are you asking
> us to change them?

I thought I was asking "make sieve-mode faces follow best current practice" 
(i.e. inherit from font-lock where appropriate), not
"change sieve-mode faces from Tim's arbitrary preference to Trent's arbitrary 
preference".

But I am not really interested in arguing this further, so let's just WONTFIX 
this ticket.

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