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Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer? |
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Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:25:07 +0200 |
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Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> One question is, why doesn't help-mode do this the
> customary way?
`font-lock-mode' is not so useful for the fontification of Help buffers,
so it makes sense not to use it. For highlighting regexps, as in your
examples, hi-lock is just fine. *Help* is mostly text, not code.
OTOH the code could be easily rewritten to use font-lock-mode and
propertize via the font-lock-face text property. I guess the reason for
that this is not the case is just that *Help* is much older than
font-lock-face, and nobody yet wanted/needed/requested to use
font-lock-mode in *Help*.
Michael.
- How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Raffaele Ricciardi, 2015/07/03
- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Vaidheeswaran C, 2015/07/03
- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/07/03
- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Michael Heerdegen, 2015/07/03
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- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Raffaele Ricciardi, 2015/07/04
- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Michael Heerdegen, 2015/07/04
- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/07/04
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- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Stefan Monnier, 2015/07/04