Missing syntax highlighting

[linuxissuper]

When I use :messages I get colors for errors (maybe more?)
But :Bmessages is just a plain buffer

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[ariel-frischer]

Good question I haven't noticed that and can't seem to find relevant documentation around it.

• https://neovim.io/doc/user/message.html

If anyone has some context on syntax highlighting for default :messages window perhaps I can port it over to the :Bmessages buffer.

[l-zeuch]

There is echohl¹, which lets you use any highlight group. The main
construct you usually see is something like this:

echohl ErrorMsg
echo "Error: Something went wrong"
echohl None

I'm not sure how to extract this highlighting info from the message
buffer, if at all, however. So I'm probably not really able to help any
further.

Footnotes

1. https://neovim.io/doc/user/eval.html#%3Aechohl ↩