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font locking variable values in Help buffer

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From: scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: 47363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47363: 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)
...

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