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Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer? |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Jul 2015 01:31:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:
> I thought that Help buffers relied on Font Lock Mode
> because -- in a Help buffer -- `C-h v font-lock-mode
> RET' replied:
>
> Its value is t Local in buffer *Help*; global
> value is nil
>
> Non-nil if Font-Lock mode is enabled.
>
> Had the value of `font-lock-mode' been `nil',
> I would have thought otherwise.
Yeah, but just because it is enabled doesn't mean it
is used.
I don't know why it is enabled if it isn't used,
perhaps someone else can answer that.
> Now that I have understood how things work, I doubt
> that it would be beneficial to use Font Lock Mode in
> Help buffers, because the text could be mixed (for
> example: Emacs Lisp code and regular text).
That is not a problem and that happens all the time.
The regexps are so advanced.
This sentence -
describe-key is an interactive compiled Lisp
function in `help.el'
- can be picked apart with only one regexp, and with
groups every single word can be highlighted in
a different color, and none of that that appears
anywhere else would get that color.
I'll do an example some other time and show you.
But if you don't want it, I still want it :)
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- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, (continued)
- 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 <=
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- Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?, Stefan Monnier, 2015/07/04