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font locking variable values in Help buffer

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From: scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: "scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: font locking variable values in Help buffer
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:48:13 +0000

When inspecting large list values of variables in the Help buffer,
it would make interpreting the list easier if the value had
elisp font lock.

E.g

...
      (cond
       ((eq type 'var)
        font-lock-variable-name-face)
       ((eq type 'type)
        font-lock-type-face)
       ((or
         (not
          (match-string 2))
         (and
          (match-string 2)
          (match-string 4)))
        font-lock-function-name-face)))
    nil t))
  ("^;;;###\\([-a-z]*autoload\\)" 1 font-lock-warning-face prepend)
  ("\\[\\(\\^\\)" 1 font-lock-negation-char-face prepend)
  ("(\\(cl-\\(?:assert\\|check-type\\)\\|error\\|signal\\|user-error\\|warn\\)\\_>"
   (1 font-lock-warning-face))
  (lisp--el-match-keyword . 1)
  ("(\\(catch\\|throw\\|featurep\\|provide\\|require\\)\\_>[ 	']*\\(\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\|\\\\.\\)+\\)?"
   (1 font-lock-keyword-face)
   (2 font-lock-constant-face nil t))
  ("\\\\\\\\\\[\\(\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\|\\\\.\\)+\\)\\]"
   (1 font-lock-constant-face prepend))
  ("\\(\\\\\\)\\([^\"\\]\\)"
   (1
    (elisp--font-lock-backslash)
    prepend))
  ("[`‘]\\(\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\|\\\\.\\)\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\|\\\\.\\)+\\)['’]"
   (1 font-lock-constant-face prepend))
  ("\\_<:\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\|\\\\.\\)+\\_>"
   (0 font-lock-builtin-face))
  ("\\_<\\&\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\|\\\\.\\)+\\_>" . font-lock-type-face)
...

Message #8 received at 47363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 47363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47363: font locking variable values in Help buffer
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 21:42:00 +0200

scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> When inspecting large list values of variables in the Help buffer,
> it would make interpreting the list easier if the value had
> elisp font lock.

Makes sense to me.  I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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