# Syntax highlighting in clippy messages

**URL:** <https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/syntax-highlighting-in-clippy-messages/1925>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 16, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/syntax-highlighting-in-clippy-messages/1925 "2021-11-16T10:54:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pendingcircumference](https://discuss.kakoune.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pendingcircumference](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/pendingcircumference)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/syntax-highlighting-in-clippy-messages/1925/1 "2021-11-16T10:54:40Z")

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I was wondering if it’s possible to change the colours of text in the clippy box. Specifically, it would be super cool if syntax highlighting could be done there.

Does anybody know if it’s currently possible? If not, I will open a feature request issue on GitHub.

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**Author:** ![Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/screwtapello/32/12_2.png) [@Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Screwtapello)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/syntax-highlighting-in-clippy-messages/1925/2 "2021-11-16T11:32:22Z")

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The `:info` command supports the `-markup` option which interprets curly-bracketed strings as faces:

```auto
info -markup "{Error}Danger, Will Robinson!"

```

![image](https://discuss.kakoune.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b745a5bc2a05eb76809e89547d09e4f4569c3633.png)

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**Author:** ![pendingcircumference](https://discuss.kakoune.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pendingcircumference](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/pendingcircumference)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/syntax-highlighting-in-clippy-messages/1925/3 "2021-11-16T16:13:25Z")

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Oh sweet! I’ll see what I can do with this. Thanks!