Re: help in same window + colorful help + Blümchen

[Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> It's not a case of "there could be", there already is:
>> 
>>   You can customize the variable font-lock-maximum-decoration to
>>   alter the amount of fontification applied by Font Lock mode, for
>>   major modes that support this feature. The value should be a number
>>   (with 1 representing a minimal amount of fontification; some modes
>>   support levels as high as 3); or t, meaning “as high as possible”
>>   (the default).
>
> Yes.  Unfortunately, there are *very few* places where Emacs code
> provides more than one fontification level.  And the Emacs maintainer
> is not particularly fond of the existence and use of levels.  (He will
> perhaps chime in, especially if I misrepresented his position on this.)

I don't find that too surprising, I can't think of anything in Emacs
that identifies too many things.  I'd guess the trade off would be
speed vs. identification and font-lock speed hasn't been an issue for
me for ages.

> (FWIW, Dired+ provides a second fontification level for Dired.)

My point was that the levels are already there,
whether they are useful is another matter.

-- 
Dan Espen