RE: Fontless Info

[Drew Adams]

> > Even if you use `M-x font-lock-mode' to turn the mode back 
> > on, in Emacs-Lisp mode keywords such as `&optional' are no
> > longer highlighted.
> 
> Use "M-x describe-text-properties RET" to see what face, if any, is
> there.

No face there.  All it says is this:

 There are text properties here:
   fontified            t

> > Dunno whether this regression is independent of the more 
> > general one that turns off font-lock mode when it should be on.
> 
> It's probably another problem.  There was some change in that area
> lately:
> 
> 2013-02-18  Michael Heerdegen  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * emacs-lisp/eldoc.el (eldoc-highlight-function-argument):
>       Use font-lock-keyword-face for macros and special forms 
> (bug#8345).

Hm.  Does eldoc.el fiddle with stuff even if you don't use Eldoc?  My recipe was
from `emacs -Q', and I did not turn on eldoc-mode.

> 2013-02-17  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-1, 
>     lisp-font-lock-keywords-2):
>       Don't assume all identifier chars have syntax word.
>       * emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el (lisp-mode-variables):
>       Remove bar-not-symbol.  Adjust callers.
>       (lisp-mode-variables): Don't set a font-lock-syntax-table.

Perhaps that is more pertinent.