Re: Words with spaces highlighted in elisp-mode comments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 15:49:46 +0200
> 
> > > > I do not see the usefulness of coloring the comment
> > > > delimiter separately (because that affects all comments in
> > > > the same way, no distinguishing feature whatsoever ).
> > >
> > > Indeed, I think all comments should be of the same color,
> > > including the delimiters.
> >
> > Font-lock is not just about colors, so this feature is still useful.
> 
> What feature is useful ?

The fact that font-lock-delimiter-face is a separate face.

> Highlighting comment-delimiter with a different colour ?
> I agree with Emanuel,  Why would one use another color than 
> `font-lock-comment-face'
> for `comment-delimiter' ?

Like I said: faces are not just about colors.  There are other
attributes, and users can decide to customize
font-lock-comment-delimiter-face to look differently even though it
uses the same colors.