From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer? Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 18:30:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20150704163037.GA17491@tuxteam.de> References: <87si94x1vk.fsf@web.de> <878uaw3qpc.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436027466 9827 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2015 16:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 16:31:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 04 18:31:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBQLF-0002Jd-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 18:31:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBQLE-0007Qg-JF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 12:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBQL3-0007QQ-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 12:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBQKy-0003uI-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 12:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:46383 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBQKy-0003u0-GR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 12:30:44 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBQKs-0004fk-24 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 18:30:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <878uaw3qpc.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105430 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlWYCi0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZwZACfULir+3EKDrrfGu0YhVp3EPLO GbAAn0zdzPX4Hyjw4eA+f5OV8Kk8M2Pe =h0fS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----