From: Juanma Barranquero <lektu@mi.madritel.es>
Subject: Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:48:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040430014041.F09B.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33c70i3tp.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
On 19 Apr 2004 13:50:58 +0200, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) wrote:
> Here is another idea, enhancing on Richard's idea:
>
> Show the full doc string, but highlight occurrences of the upper case
> PARAM name in the doc string -- then the user will be able to quickly
> locate the relevant information and focus on that...
Related to that, here's a (proof-of-concept) patch that sets the face
`font-lock-variable-name-face' for all uses of the arguments of a
function in a `describe-function' *Help* buffer.
I say proof-of-concept because I've not provided a way to make it
optional, I've hard-coded the face used, etc. Still, it works
beautifully.
The auxiliary function help-highlight-arguments is designed in such a
way that it can be pased a nil WORDS argument (and then it highlights
all arguments of the function), or a list of desired arguments to
highlight, so it can be of help if highlighting info for an argument is
desired (which was discused in this thread).
Opinions?
/L/e/k/t/u
Index: help-fns.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/help-fns.el,v
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -u -2 -r1.40 help-fns.el
--- help-fns.el 29 Apr 2004 18:46:13 -0000 1.40
+++ help-fns.el 29 Apr 2004 23:39:08 -0000
@@ -131,4 +131,25 @@
;; Functions
+(defun help-highlight-arguments (fun &rest words)
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (let* ((case-fold-search nil)
+ (next (and (not words)
+ (re-search-forward (concat "(" (symbol-name fun)) nil t))))
+ ;; Make a list of all arguments
+ (while next
+ (when (re-search-forward " \\([^ &\)\.]+\\)" nil t)
+ (setq words (cons (match-string 1) words)))
+ (setq next (not (search-forward ")" (1+ (point)) t))))
+ ;; Highlight all found arguments anywhere in the *Help* buffer
+ (while words
+ (let* ((word (car words))
+ (solo (concat "\\<" word "\\>"))
+ (high (propertize word 'face 'font-lock-variable-name-face)))
+ (setq words (cdr words))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (re-search-forward solo nil t)
+ (replace-match high nil t)))))))
+
;;;###autoload
(defun describe-function (function)
@@ -156,4 +177,6 @@
(print-help-return-message)
(with-current-buffer standard-output
+ ;; highlight argument names
+ (help-highlight-arguments function)
;; Return the text we displayed.
(buffer-string))))))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-29 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 6:26 Improved help from minibuffer prompts Stefan Reichör
2004-04-13 6:57 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-13 10:48 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-14 1:22 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-14 5:35 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-14 6:49 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-14 10:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-14 10:39 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-15 16:44 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 6:15 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-16 10:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-16 13:12 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-14 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15 1:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-16 18:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14 3:43 ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-04-14 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15 5:50 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-16 18:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 21:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-17 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-19 7:51 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-19 11:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-29 23:48 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2004-04-30 5:32 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-30 9:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-01 17:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-01 18:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-02 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-02 22:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-03 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-06 1:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-06 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-07 1:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-09 2:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-07 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-30 10:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-30 13:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 15:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-30 22:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-30 21:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-01 2:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-01 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-02 1:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04 0:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 22:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-19 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-20 20:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-20 23:13 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-21 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-19 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 18:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15 11:42 ` Matthew Mundell
2004-04-16 6:05 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-18 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
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