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 15:01:14 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040510145038.5C88.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> References: <20040510092433.5C7F.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084205198 30798 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 16:06:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 18:06:08 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 1BNDI8-00072I-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 18:06:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNDI7-0004ZU-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 18:06:07 +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 1BND6N-0004G6-Eg for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 11:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNCs6-0001mS-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 11:39:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNAeH-0005Qw-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 09:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.22.181.117] (helo=idefix.laley.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNAPC-0002b3-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 09:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.17.221.23] (jsredondo.wk.org [172.17.221.23]) by idefix.laley.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2655.55) id K4TS1A5Q; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:01:13 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.08.01 [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:23045 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23045 On 10 May 2004 08:45:46 -0400 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > - recognize args by all-uppercase. That's what's done now, but exploring just the arglist info, not the full docstring. > - make only the first N instances of the arg stand out. That would be easy to implement. But... > this makes it easy to locate the general area of an arg's > description, w/o overwhelming decoration, by default =2E..I don't think it would work right in many cases of long docstrings. Examples: defmacro, open-network-stream (-nowait, -server), define-key, etc. > - default N is 1, but add a user-defineable function to > evaluate context and possibly return another number. My gut feeling is that this would add unneeded complexity for such a simple featurette. I think there's people who likes it (for different levels of subtlety), and people who just don't and will customize it out of their Emacs :) > - keep "stand out" as bold. Whatever is decided. Thanks, Juanma