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most keywords in emacs-lisp-mode has no syntax highlight

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: xah lee <xah <at> xahlee.org>
Cc: 2630 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2630: most keywords in emacs-lisp-mode has no syntax highlight
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:03:54 +0200

xah lee <xah <at> xahlee.org> writes:

> the syntax highlighting in emacs-lisp-mode only support the very
> minimum of highlighting.
>
> for example, these keywords would be colored purple by default:
>
>  defun, lambda, while, if, progn, save-restriction
>
> while the following built-in keywords are uncolored (black):
> narrow-to-region, mapc, goto-char, point-min, search-forward, car,
> nil, replace-match ... etc.
>
> it appears that this is because only proper elisp “special forms” are
> are colored, while all the others are not (macros, functions,
> commands, variables ...). (thanks to Nikolaj Schumacher & Tassilo
> Horn)

I guess you're asking for functions symbols to be coloured in a
different way than the standard face?  I think that would be kinda
disturbing -- Emacs lisp code is mostly function calls, so having that
in the default (most readable) face makes sense to me.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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