Quoth Michal Nazarewicz on Aug 28 at 2:51 am: > > Quoth Michal Nazarewicz on Aug 28 at 1:11 am: > >> I'm not an expert either, but with this patch applied I see colours, > >> without this patch, I don't see colours, ie. everything is rendered > >> using the default face. > >> > >> I'm also not entirely sure if that's the correct way of doing things > >> since 'face seems to be working in other modes (most notably > >> notmuch-show). By posting, I'm also hoping that someone more > >> experienced will maybe take a look to see what's going on here... ;) > >> > >> For some more info, in notmuch-show mode, I get-text-property of nil for > >> both 'face and 'font-lock-face, but in message-mode or in *scratch* > >> buffer I'm getting nil for 'font-lock-face but non-nil for 'face. With > >> the patch, I'm getting the same non-nil for both 'face and > >> 'font-lock-face; without the patch, I'm getting nil for both. > > Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes: > > This is odd. Could you give more details about your environment? In > > particular, what Emacs version are you running and might you have any > > unusual Emacs packages installed or customizations set? > > I'm running Emacs compiled from a week old bzr head, emacs-version > reports: \u201cGNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2012-08-21 > on mpn-glaptop\u201d. > > I don't think I have any \u201cunusual\u201d packages, but I do have quite a bit > of customization, which you might find at > <https://github.com/mina86/dot-files/blob/master/dot-emacs>. I think the culprit is your "Show blanks and FIXME" font-lock-mode-hook. > > The unusual thing about font-lock-face is that it only gets applied if > > font-lock is enabled; otherwise it's ignored. One theory is that the > > nil font-lock-face (without your patch) is causing font-lock to > > *override* the face property that we set. I don't think font-lock > > usually does that, but perhaps in some situations, it will? > > Ha! That could be the cause. I've disabled global-font-lock-mode, and > the colours appeared. Getting property returns non-nil for 'face and > nil for 'font-lock-face. When I enable font-lock-mode the property seem > to disappear and disabling font-lock-mode again does not help. It's possible we should use font-lock-face. I'm not sure. Poking around the standard elisp, it looks like some things use 'face and some things use 'font-lock-face. I think 'face is more common, but it's hard to grep for.