From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to add syntax-highlighting to a Help buffer?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:50:27 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mn5k4e$fms$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cvmtmrFqcegU1@mid.individual.net>
Put it in hi-lock-mode. See if it helps.
C-h K C-x w h
On Friday 03 July 2015 01:29 PM, Raffaele Ricciardi wrote:
> I would like to add some syntax-highlighting to Help buffers. I have
> tried to do that for example with the Help buffer displayed by C-h f
> read-string RET, by following the usual way:
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords
> nil
> `(("\\(arbitrary regexp\\)" 1 'font-lock-function-name-face)))
>
> But the above expression breaks the existing highlighting (the
> highlighting of the function arguments disappears). Also, now C-- C-x
> C-q M-: (insert (propertize "test" 'face 'font-lock-warning-face)) RET
> does not insert colorized text as it would do with a fresh Help buffer.
>
> I am using GNU Emacs 24.5.
>
> Thank you.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-03 9:20 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 [this message]
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
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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