From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:00:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: More details of font-lock-comment-delimiter-face and related issues.
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More details of font-lock-comment-delimiter-face and related issues.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS.22 b/etc/NEWS.22
index fe5f9144d0c..77ec33f2d0a 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS.22
+++ b/etc/NEWS.22
@@ -996,6 +996,15 @@ fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
 `Info-mode-hook'.
 
 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
+This is used for the characters that indicate the start of a comment,
+e.g. `;' in Lisp mode.
+
+*** `font-lock-comment-face' no longer differs from the default on
+displays with fewer than 16 colors (e.g. older xterms and the Linux console).
+On such displays, only the comment delimiters will appear to be fontified
+(in the new face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face').  To restore the
+old appearance, customize `font-lock-comment-face', or use a newer terminal
+emulator that supports more colors (256 is now common).
 
 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.