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(elisp)Faces for Font Lock

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Faces for Font Lock
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   You can make Font Lock mode use any face, but several faces are
defined specifically for Font Lock mode.  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'.  This means you can write
`font-lock-comment-face' in a context such as `font-lock-keywords'
where a face-name-valued expression is used.

`font-lock-comment-face'
     Used (typically) for comments.

`font-lock-string-face'
     Used (typically) for string constants.

`font-lock-keyword-face'
     Used (typically) for keywords--names that have special syntactic
     significance, like `for' and `if' in C.

`font-lock-builtin-face'
     Used (typically) for built-in function names.

`font-lock-function-name-face'
     Used (typically) for the name of a function being defined or
     declared, in a function definition or declaration.

`font-lock-variable-name-face'
     Used (typically) for the name of a variable being defined or
     declared, in a variable definition or declaration.

`font-lock-type-face'
     Used (typically) for names of user-defined data types, where they
     are defined and where they are used.

`font-lock-constant-face'
     Used (typically) for constant names.

`font-lock-warning-face'
     Used (typically) for constructs that are peculiar, or that greatly
     change the meaning of other text.  For example, this is used for
     `;;;###autoload' cookies in Emacs Lisp, and for `#error'
     directives in C.