Re: option doc strings and Customize tags

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  >  nil      Case-sensitive
>>  >  t        Case-insensitive
>>  >  <other>  Use default
>>
>> I'd put the Lisp values in parentheses as
>>
>>      Case-sensitive (nil)
>>      Case-insensitive (t)
>>      Use default
>
> Sure, fine, whatever. It doesn't matter much what format we use. Except that
> adding parens might confuse things for Lisp values that are lists: ((foo 
> bar)).
>
> A more general formatting problem is that the Lisp values might be quite long.
> Some kind of abbreviation is probably called for.

A link that is opened in *Help* and shows the value with an
explanation where it came from?

> And we still need something to
> indicate `other value'.