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: Mon, 10 May 2004 01:48:37 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040510013534.F994.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> References: <20040510004429.F991.LEKTU@mi.madritel.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 1084146630 25067 80.91.224.253 (9 May 2004 23:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 23:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 01:50:21 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 1BMy3p-00016j-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 01:50:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMy3p-000855-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 01:50:21 +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 1BMy3Y-0007cf-8B for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMy2y-0007Xd-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMy2J-0006yP-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.81.186.19] (helo=smtp09.retemail.es) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMy2E-0006oY-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([213.37.34.31]) by smtp09.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20040509234840.BSIG25645.smtp09.retemail.es@[127.0.0.1]>; Mon, 10 May 2004 01:48:40 +0200 Original-To: Stefan Monnier , 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:22999 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22999 On 09 May 2004 19:10:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I think uppercase is intrusive enough. As with all issues regarding colors and defaults, it seems there aren't two users/developers who agree on this one... :) > It makes sense to add highlighting for cases where the user wants to > highlight a particular argument (as in the original situation which > prompted this long thread). Hm. We could allow passing a numeric argument to describe function, so "C-3 C-h f my-function" would highlight the third argument of myfunction (only half joking...) > But highlighting all args doesn't seem of much > use to me. Oh, I don't find it very useful to describe `nth'; but `define-minor-mode' or `define-key', definitely yes. > I think the additional highlight would make more sense in a situation where > the *Help* buffer uses a larger font for the function/variable name at the > top (i.e. like a title), then some other font (probably courrier) for the > usage, then yet some other (something proportional) for the body, ... That's doable, but I think many people would find it way too much highlighting. However, if that's the way to go, I'd take a look into implementing it. I'm not going to push for any specific default color/highlighting on this issue; whatever is decided is OK by me. But I certainly wouldn't like the feature to go. At the very least, we can set the face to 'default and let the user decide. /L/e/k/t/u