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: new *Help* argument highlighting Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 02:09:24 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040509015651.40E4.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> References: <20040509013011.40E1.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> <20040508234956.GA23847@fencepost> 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 1084061487 18090 80.91.224.253 (9 May 2004 00:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 00:11:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 02:11:21 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 1BMbub-0008P3-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 02:11:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMbub-00015z-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 02:11:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMbuV-0008U7-G5 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 20:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMbu0-0008Sh-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 20:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMbtS-0007wS-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 20:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.81.186.19] (helo=smtp09.retemail.es) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMbso-0006hH-Cu; Sat, 08 May 2004 20:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([213.37.34.49]) by smtp09.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20040509000929.PSHM25645.smtp09.retemail.es@[127.0.0.1]>; Sun, 9 May 2004 02:09:29 +0200 Original-To: Miles Bader , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20040508234956.GA23847@fencepost> 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:22954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22954 On Sat, 8 May 2004 19:49:56 -0400, Miles Bader wrote: > I think that if the highlighted args are too noticeable, we should reduce > their highlighting, not start highlighting everything else. Yes. Personally I find arg highlighting very useful (it helps me a lot to quickly extract information from help buffers, in particular from long-winded docstrings) but I think the key is that args are somewhat more visible, not the absolute focus of attention. That would be distracting. > Personally I wish we had even more subtle > methods of highlighting (e.g., an underline with very sparsely-spaced dots > instead of a solid line). That could perhaps be done with stipples, but seems a bit over the top. Another alternative is to use a soft shade of gray, for example this: (defface myhelp-argument-name '(((background light) :foreground "gray45") ((background dark) :foreground "gray70")) "Face to highlight argument names in *Help* buffers") /L/e/k/t/u