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elisp: Faces for Font Lock

 
 22.6.7 Faces for Font Lock
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 Font Lock mode can highlight using any face, but Emacs defines several
 faces specifically for Font Lock to use to highlight text.  These “Font
 Lock faces” are listed below.  They can also be used by major modes for
 syntactic highlighting outside of Font Lock mode (Major Mode
 Conventions).
 
    Each of these symbols is both a face name, and a variable whose
 default value is the symbol itself.  Thus, the default value of
 ‘font-lock-comment-face’ is ‘font-lock-comment-face’.
 
    The faces are listed with descriptions of their typical usage, and in
 order of greater to lesser prominence.  If a mode’s syntactic categories
 do not fit well with the usage descriptions, the faces can be assigned
 using the ordering as a guide.
 
 ‘font-lock-warning-face’
      for a construct that is peculiar, or that greatly changes the
      meaning of other text, like ‘;;;###autoload’ in Emacs Lisp and
      ‘#error’ in C.
 
 ‘font-lock-function-name-face’
      for the name of a function being defined or declared.
 
 ‘font-lock-variable-name-face’
      for the name of a variable being defined or declared.
 
 ‘font-lock-keyword-face’
      for a keyword with special syntactic significance, like ‘for’ and
      ‘if’ in C.
 
 ‘font-lock-comment-face’
      for comments.
 
 ‘font-lock-comment-delimiter-face’
      for comments delimiters, like ‘/*’ and ‘*/’ in C.  On most
      terminals, this inherits from ‘font-lock-comment-face’.
 
 ‘font-lock-type-face’
      for the names of user-defined data types.
 
 ‘font-lock-constant-face’
      for the names of constants, like ‘NULL’ in C.
 
 ‘font-lock-builtin-face’
      for the names of built-in functions.
 
 ‘font-lock-preprocessor-face’
      for preprocessor commands.  This inherits, by default, from
      ‘font-lock-builtin-face’.
 
 ‘font-lock-string-face’
      for string constants.
 
 ‘font-lock-doc-face’
      for documentation strings in the code.  This inherits, by default,
      from ‘font-lock-string-face’.
 
 ‘font-lock-negation-char-face’
      for easily-overlooked negation characters.
 

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