Re: Fontification of kernel macros

[Ikumi Keita]

Hi Arash,

>>>>> Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:
> it occurred to me that there are kernel macros where AUCTeX doesn't
> provide fontification for.  I'd like to improve this a little.  I'm
> attaching a list of macros which I'm aware of, and how I think they
> should be added to font-latex.el.  Please have a look at it and let me
> know if things are missing or should be fontified differently.

Thanks for raising this issue.

1. I think it'a good chance to consider to include fontification for
font specifying command in math mode such as \mathbf, \mathit etc. also,
as proposed previously:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/auctex-devel/2018-04/msg00014.html

2. \qbezier accepts one optional argument, so its entry for font-latex
should be ("qbezier" "[(((") .

3. \savebox has different syntax in picture environment like
\begin{picture}(100,80)
  \savebox{\someboxname}(80,10)[b]{%
  ...
  }
  ...
\end{picture}
(But maybe we should avoid making the regexp for \savebox too complex
and just leave such \savebox inside picture env.)

4. (Topic not related directly to Arash's proposal) Current
font-latex-built-in-keyword-classes has an entry ("verb" "*") in
"textual" class. Is this meaningful? It seems that \verb and \verb*
are treated independently by syntactic fontification and this entry has
no effect.

Bye,
Ikumi Keita