GNU bug report logs - #64769
Docstrings made to print specfied lines in colour

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Message #8 received at 64769 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
Cc: 64769 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64769: Docstrings made to print specfied lines in colour
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:28:05 +0300

> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:37:02 +0000
> From:  uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> It would be an improvement if docstrings can be made to print specfied lines
> in colour.  Currently everything is one colour, except executable commands that
> are not expected to have whitespaces.

*Help* buffers do have faces, and you can customize them to use
non-default colors.

Beyond that, it is not clear what behavior you are asking for.  How
will the "specified lines" be specified, and by whom?

Doc strings are general Emacs feature, so if it's desirable to have
specific parts of them highlighted in certain ways, the first question
to ask is which parts will those be, and how will they be identified?

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