From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: arguments hint
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:22:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406030022.35504.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ise94rl6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > Meanwhile, I decided to practice with Elisp for a bit and came up with the
> > following patch for eldoc-mode. I assigned copyright to FSF, so if you like
> > the patch, you can include it in Emacs.
>
> Since we are in feature freeze, I think this patch will have to wait.
No problem. When is the release?
> > The patch makes eldoc-mode highlight the current argument with bold face.
> > Thus one can immediatly see which argument he stopped his point on. This is
> > maybe not very useful when typing new code, but should be helpful when
> > editing something. I took care to handle special cases like `&optional' or
> > `&rest'.
>
> I like this idea (even though it is pretty hairy to correctly process
> &optional, [OPTARG], or even &key and such which can appear with functions
> defined with CL's defun*).
> When editing calls to completing-read and other such functions with many
> parameters, it's really handy (although I'd prefer to use CL-style &key
> parameters for those).
Well, I'm not familiar with Common Lisp, so I just handled Elisp cases.
I can try to look into this especially since the patch is delayed.
> > As another, minor, change it highlights function/variable name with
> > appropriate face. This should help distinguishing between function and
> > variable hints.
>
> That doesn't strike me as terribly useful (the text is pretty different in
> the two cases already).
I can remove this. The largest part is about arguments anyway.
Paul
P.S. I'm now subscribed to `emacs-devel', so you can reply to the list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-06-02 3:45 ` arguments hint Richard Stallman
2004-06-02 5:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02 6:30 ` Karl Chen
2004-06-02 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02 22:55 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-03 15:33 ` Karl Chen
2004-06-02 20:11 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-06-02 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02 21:22 ` Paul Pogonyshev [this message]
2004-06-04 13:33 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-10-10 3:31 ` Stefan
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