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Re: new *Help* argument highlighting
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: new *Help* argument highlighting |
Date: |
Mon, 10 May 2004 15:01:14 +0200 |
On 10 May 2004 08:45:46 -0400
Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
> - recognize args by all-uppercase.
That's what's done now, but exploring just the arglist info, not the
full docstring.
> - make only the first N instances of the arg stand out.
That would be easy to implement. But...
> this makes it easy to locate the general area of an arg's
> description, w/o overwhelming decoration, by default
...I don't think it would work right in many cases of long docstrings.
Examples: defmacro, open-network-stream (-nowait, -server), define-key,
etc.
> - default N is 1, but add a user-defineable function to
> evaluate context and possibly return another number.
My gut feeling is that this would add unneeded complexity for such a
simple featurette. I think there's people who likes it (for different
levels of subtlety), and people who just don't and will customize it out
of their Emacs :)
> - keep "stand out" as bold.
Whatever is decided.
Thanks,
Juanma
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, (continued)
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Miles Bader, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/11
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/11
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/11
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/11
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Miles Bader, 2004/05/11
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/11