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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 18:30:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150704163037.GA17491@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uaw3qpc.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se>

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On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 05:09:03PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

[...]

> One question is, why doesn't help-mode do this the
> customary way?

Perhaps because much of font-lock's complexity deals
with keeping up with changes to the buffer (while you
are editing), something which doesn't happen to a help
buffer.

But this is just my guess.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-04 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-03  7:59 How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer? Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-07-03  9:20 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-07-03 20:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-03 23:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-07-04 15:09   ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-04 15:25     ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-07-04 23:24       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-04 16:30     ` tomas [this message]
2015-07-04 23:25       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6316.1436023528.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-04 17:29       ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-07-04 17:43         ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-07-04 23:31         ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6317.1436027452.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-04 17:54       ` Stefan Monnier

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