From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecilio Pardo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Colorizing source code in Info manuals Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 23:06:37 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15668"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 05 23:07:42 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tJK0a-0003wM-VP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:07:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJJzj-00086E-6I; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:06:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJJzh-00085h-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:06:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.imayhem.com ([82.223.54.191] helo=zealous-pike.82-223-54-191.plesk.page) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJJze-0001iP-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:06:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.68.104] (111.red-88-21-7.staticip.rima-tde.net [88.21.7.111]) by zealous-pike.82-223-54-191.plesk.page (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D354A80096 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2024 22:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: zealous-pike.82-223-54-191.plesk.page; spf=pass (sender IP is 88.21.7.111) smtp.mailfrom=cpardo@imayhem.com smtp.helo=[192.168.68.104] Received-SPF: pass (zealous-pike.82-223-54-191.plesk.page: connection is authenticated) Content-Language: es-ES Received-SPF: pass client-ip=82.223.54.191; envelope-from=cpardo@imayhem.com; helo=zealous-pike.82-223-54-191.plesk.page X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:326105 Archived-At: Hello, As texinfo is not going to add features like color to the Info format, I think maybe emacs could add some itself. For example, the Emacs Lisp Intro uses @smallexample blocks for presenting lisp code. I modified makeinfo more or less successfully to generate a file with the line numbers where these blocks start. With this kind of information, emacs could fontify the source code. Does this sound good?