From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help in same window + colorful help + =?utf-8?Q?Bl=C3=BCmchen?= Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:20:04 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87lhera8kl.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150707234519.25862.069DDC4F@ahiker.mooo.com> <20150708070357.GA18527@tuxteam.de> <87fv4z2aov.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150708111326.GA29589@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436377327 19686 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2015 17:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:42:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 08 19:42:06 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 1ZCt19-00010P-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCt18-0008S1-Ok for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:20:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ad871ce417d1fb2ea3c87e49e48c0ae1"; logging-data="19362"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18JC0t1jzgrDMid53oFr7RGpp5du97/SI4=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oZKPDfKxpONbm6bowEt3x8GieXs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213249 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:105535 Archived-At: Drew Adams 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