From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:16:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Comment.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~2831
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8230b7b3a110f388ee09873a8726f5a465d53abf;p=emacs.git

Comment.
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diff --git a/lisp/font-lock.el b/lisp/font-lock.el
index 3f81de0b144..dc1af6c61d7 100644
--- a/lisp/font-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/font-lock.el
@@ -288,6 +288,11 @@ If a number, only buffers greater than this size have fontification messages."
 ;; We now allow a FACENAME in `font-lock-keywords' to be any expression that
 ;; returns a face.  So the easiest thing is to continue using these variables,
 ;; rather than sometimes evaling FACENAME and sometimes not.  sm.
+
+;; Note that in new code, in the vast majority of cases there is no
+;; need to create variables that specify face names.  Simply using
+;; faces directly is enough.  Font-lock is not a template to be
+;; followed in this area.
 (defvar font-lock-comment-face		'font-lock-comment-face
   "Face name to use for comments.")