Re: Two questions

[kgold]

Most experts say that hilit19 is obsolete.

My understanding is that there are standard names, like
font-lock-comment-face, which are shared by all modes.  If you look at
cperl-mode.el, you will see the faces used there.  The default values
are defined in font-lock.el.

"Frank Winkler @home" <frank@consol.de> writes:
> 
> Ok, "font-lock-mode" seems to be a good trace. If I enable this mode, my 
> Perl program gets fontified. But I still don't understand why and how. The 
> word "perl" doesn't appear in font-lock.el.
> So where exactly is the keyword-color mapping defined? Why is this not 
> coupled to perl-mode.el?
> 
> After some more fiddling: hilit19.el seems to be the interesting point.

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