From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new *Help* argument highlighting Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 18:25:55 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040509222555.GA17587@fencepost> References: <20040507102604.2132.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <87k6zmzhky.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084141743 12044 80.91.224.253 (9 May 2004 22:29:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:29:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , jmbarranquero@wke.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 00:28:56 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 1BMwn1-0006aU-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 00:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMwn1-0006Mh-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 00:28:55 +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 1BMwly-0007Ck-LS for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 18:27:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMwkm-0006gf-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 18:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMwkE-0006Yp-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 18:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMwkE-0006Ye-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 18:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.33) id 1BMwk7-00050F-PL; Sun, 09 May 2004 18:25:55 -0400 Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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:22992 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22992 On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 02:47:29PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I like this feature. However, I think that by highlighting only > argument names it causes such a feeling that other text in the Help > buffer is less important. > > Let's use italic for the argument names, when italic is available. > That matches what the manual does. The problem is that the argument names are already uppercase, and uppercase+italic looks kinda weird, certainly not very much like what's in the manuals. -Miles -- .Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.