From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 20:33:26 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040501202217.4739.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> References: <20040430103926.28AB.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083436719 29189 80.91.224.253 (1 May 2004 18:38:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 18:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 01 20:38:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJzNe-000694-00 for ; Sat, 01 May 2004 20:38:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJzNe-000871-00 for ; Sat, 01 May 2004 20:38:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJzKZ-0008Na-NX for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 01 May 2004 14:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJzJr-0008L1-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2004 14:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJzJJ-0008An-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2004 14:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.81.186.19] (helo=smtp09.retemail.es) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJzIo-0007wc-8d; Sat, 01 May 2004 14:33:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([213.37.34.55]) by smtp09.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20040501183325.MZOB25645.smtp09.retemail.es@[127.0.0.1]>; Sat, 1 May 2004 20:33:25 +0200 Original-To: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.09.01 [en] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22501 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22501 On Sat, 01 May 2004 13:51:44 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Emacs Lisp does not support them, and I believe it is better > not to add that feature. `defun*' is a macro in emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el which allows creating defuns with (almost-)full CL-style arglists. In fact, there are at least two modules in Emacs which already define functions with such arglists: net/quickurl.el: (quickurl, quickurl-read, quickurl-browse-url) progmodes/ebrowse.el: (ebrowse-draw-file-member-info) There is also machinery (help-make-usage, from help-fns.el) to support them in describe-function. So it's better if help-highlight-arguments also supports them. Even if we were to expurge such functions from the sources, the user can make use of defun*... I don't think we're going to remove functionality from cl-macs.el, aren't we? /L/e/k/t/u