# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1205377191 0 # Node ID 4cc6af526cc6d62423afeeb3389e87b7e6c5d472 # Parent 54a593940f4c6389aa88952c3f278b5b2365afe0 More details of font-lock-comment-delimiter-face and related issues. diff -r 54a593940f4c -r 4cc6af526cc6 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Wed Mar 12 23:11:29 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Thu Mar 13 02:59:51 2008 +0000 @@ -996,6 +996,15 @@ `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'.