Re: uppercase var names in docstrings

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan <address@hidden> writes:

> A few months ago, the help code was changed so that C-h f now looks for the
> uppercase variable names and makes them lowercase&italics (if the terminal
> supports it).

> I waited to see how I'd like it and I must say that I'm actually annoyed by
> the lowercasing: it makes it much harder for me to find the spot in
> a docstring where the use of a particular argument is described.

Me too.

> Basically the problem is that varnames don't stand out as much as before,
> since the only thing that distinguishes them from normal text is
> the italics.

> Of course I can change my own setting easily, but if I'm not the only
> oddball who feels this way, maybe it'd better to change the default so that
> such varnames are only made italics but not lowercase.

I fully agree with that.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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