bug#51940: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Fontification and indentation in M-x shell and ielm

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:47:37 +0100
> From: miha--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Please find the attached patches which enable fontification and
> indentation in M-x shell and ielm. The main fontification and
> indentation machinery is implemented in comint.el and should be general
> enough for use by other comint derived modes. It works by making an
> indirect buffer, putting it in a suitable major mode (sh-mode in
> M-x shell buffers, for example) and fontifying and indenting user input
> that buffer.

Thanks.

One general comment about the doc strings:

> +(defvar-local comint-indirect-setup-function nil
> +  "Function to set up an indirect buffer.

here and elsewhere in the changes, please modify the first sentence of
the doc strings so that they don't sound too general.  "Set up an
indirect buffer" doesn't hint on the fact that this is for comint
buffers, not in general about indirect buffers.  The same problem
exists with many doc strings in these patches.