GNU bug report logs - #77291
31.0.50; Rainbow-mode conflicts with fontification of function arguments in help-mode buffers

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Message #14 received at 77291 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kristoffer Balintona <krisbalintona <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77291 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77291: 31.0.50; Rainbow-mode conflicts with fontification of
 function arguments in help-mode buffers
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:38:14 -0400

On Thu, Mar 27 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Cc: 77291 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:04:15 -0600
>>
> [... 18 lines elided]
>> I'm not rainbow-mode author or maintainer, but this is a font-lock
>> downside (which rainbow-mode uses), font-lock overrides any
>> text-property (faces) made in the buffer.
>
> Not all of them: it leaves some untouched.  See the description of
> font-lock-extra-managed-props in the ELisp manual.

So: this means that ideally rainbow-mode doesn't mess with the
fontification of function arguments, right? (Just clarifying whether
this is indeed a bug.)

-- 
In gratitude,
Kristoffer

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