[vim/vim] Add dedicated highlight groups (Popup, PopupBorder, PopupTitle) for popup windows similar to Neovim (Issue #20110)

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Mao-Yining

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Is your feature request about something that is currently impossible or hard to do? Please describe the problem.

Currently, popup windows for general information display (documentation preview, plugin UI) use the Pmenu highlight group by default. But Pmenu is designed for completion menus — colorschemes make it dark to contrast with PmenuSel. This makes Pmenu too dark for general info popups, forcing colorscheme authors to choose: dark Pmenu (good for completion, bad for popups) or light Pmenu (good for popups, bad for completion). Neovim solves this with dedicated groups: NormalFloat, FloatBorder, FloatTitle, FloatShadow.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add equivalent highlight groups to Vim:

Popup – popup content area
PopupBorder – border color
PopupTitle – title text

Fallback defaults: Popup links to Normal, PopupBorder links to Normal etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Using g:popup_highlight – but this is not standardized.

Additional context

As more plugins use popups for non-completion purposes (doc previews, floating trees), dedicated groups would align Vim with Neovim's approach. Vim already has popup-specific groups like PopupSelected — extending this family is natural.

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@habamax What do you think about this?

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