Re: Global Font Lock by default

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > !      (:inherit default))
  > 
  > Inheriting from default is rarely what you want to do.  Here it's just
  > a workaround.  The only case I can think of where it makes sense to inherit
  > from `default' is in cases where you want this face to override the effects
  > of other faces, e.g. if you want to override the background color of the
  > header-line on some part of the header-line text, you can place on that text
  > a face that inherits from `default'.

How about this as a better workaround?

*** font-lock.el        31 Oct 2005 08:29:09 -0800      1.280
--- font-lock.el        01 Nov 2005 07:05:12 -0800      
***************
*** 1691,1699 ****
      (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background dark))
       (:foreground "red1"))
      (((class color) (min-colors 8) (background light))
!      )
      (((class color) (min-colors 8) (background dark))
!      )
      (t (:weight bold :slant italic)))
    "Font Lock mode face used to highlight comments."
    :group 'font-lock-highlighting-faces)
--- 1691,1701 ----
      (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background dark))
       (:foreground "red1"))
      (((class color) (min-colors 8) (background light))
!      ;; ":foreground nil" is a no-op in this case, but it forces the
!      ;; face to be reset at run time.
!      (:foreground nil))
      (((class color) (min-colors 8) (background dark))
!      (:foreground nil))
      (t (:weight bold :slant italic)))
    "Font Lock mode face used to highlight comments."
    :group 'font-lock-highlighting-faces)