From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make apostrophes invisible in Help buffers
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:32:26 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17319.20762.639278.808421@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EoUiC-0006Yx-V8@fencepost.gnu.org>
> The apostrophes are put in the doc string so that links can be parsed
> in the Help buffer, not for the end user.
>
> The apostrophes follow a general GNU convention for indicating symbol
> names in text. We have followed that convention for 20 years.
> So I am not going to say yes to this change.
Its a convention that was made when monochrome text-only terminals like
VT100s were the norm. My guess is that with the underline, mouse-face
highlighting and help echo, the user will guess that he's looking at a
symbol name... but its your choice.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-20 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-18 12:10 Make apostrophes invisible in Help buffers Nick Roberts
2005-12-19 4:38 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-19 5:11 ` Nick Roberts
2005-12-19 23:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20 0:32 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2005-12-20 16:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-19 19:58 ` Drew Adams
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