# HG changeset patch
# User Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
# Date 1221941789 0
# Node ID 31ee18a10bb383709bf6a43e1e57adafdeb3a6bb
# Parent  62ab73cd23831b22cc1523ad022b83adaa59f46f
Comment.

diff -r 62ab73cd2383 -r 31ee18a10bb3 lisp/font-lock.el
--- a/lisp/font-lock.el	Sat Sep 20 20:04:47 2008 +0000
+++ b/lisp/font-lock.el	Sat Sep 20 20:16:29 2008 +0000
@@ -288,6 +288,11 @@
 ;; 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.")