Re: Customisation for Comments

[goncholden]

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On Friday, February 11th, 2022 at 8:19 PM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> goncholden wrote:
>
> > > then start with a function that increases the contrast by CON.
> >
> > I have done all that and introduced them into a minor-mode.
> > There are a number of minor-modes out there that do provide
> > font-lock customization. Extending a major-mode is not
> > simple, eg. a derived mode from prog-mode is used to make
> > a major-mode, like emacs-lisp-mode (which actually derives
> > from lisp-data-mode which derives from prog-mode).

> > This means that if I derive from prog-mode, I would need to
> > setup the syntax for the major-mode before I can change the
> > comment font-locking.

> Why do you need modes at all for that?

I am relatively new to elisp planning and could do with suggestions.
The plan is to make this available to users, and though minor-modes
are the way to do things.