Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-lock lower than maximal?

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
  >> on Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:29:14 +0300 wrote:

  >> From: Vitalie Spinu <address@hidden>
  >> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:29:12 +0200
  >> 
  >> It looks to me that emacs should set font-lock-maximum-decoration to a
  >> number instead to `t' by default. Then mode developers can easily decide
  >> what font-lock to activate by default by setting appropriate keywords up
  >> to that level only, and everything else on a higher level.

  > I think it's not up to the mode developer to decide that.  It's up to
  > the user.  So you as developer should provide all the fontifications
  > your users may wish to have, and let them decide what to activate.

You mean "let them decide what to deactivate"? All levels are activated
by default (font-lock-maximum-decoration is t). And obviously some guys
(may be including the developer) don't like that.

Vitalie.