From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 'martin rudalics' <rudalics@gmx.at>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: option doc strings and Customize tags
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:49:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005301c93936$4a358b10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50810281238v249d4a90of561d903cd40758a@mail.gmail.com>
> >> > 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?
Possibly. But the point here is to show all of the possible values *together*.
You don't want to click a button/link and open *Help* for each possible value,
to see its Lisp value separately from the others.
A single display of all tags and their Lisp values (in *Help* or elsewhere) is
what's needed. See the original suggestion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 18:12 option doc strings and Customize tags Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:09 ` martin rudalics
2008-10-28 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 19:49 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-10-28 20:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30 5:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-30 6:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-29 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-29 6:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-29 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-30 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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