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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: function arguments downcased in help buffers
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:20:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804150020.m3F0KBMo012038@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)


emacs -Q 
C-h f defun RET

which CVS HEAD shows this:


defun is a special form in `C source code'.

(defun name arglist [docstring] body...)

Define name as a function.
The definition is (lambda arglist [docstring] body...).
See also the function `interactive'.

In 22.2 and older version from CVS HEAD used to show this:

defun is a special form in `C source code'.

(defun NAME ARGLIST [DOCSTRING] BODY...)

Define NAME as a function.
The definition is (lambda ARGLIST [DOCSTRING] BODY...).
See also the function `interactive'.


not sure why this happens, but it does not seem like a good idea, the
upper case used for arguments is quite helpful when trying to spot what
a certain argument does.





             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15  0:20 Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-04-15  1:52 ` function arguments downcased in help buffers Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-15  2:04   ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-15  2:33     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-15  5:03     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-15  8:51       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-15 14:16         ` Drew Adams
2008-04-15 14:48           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-15 15:04             ` Drew Adams
2008-04-15 14:25         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-15 15:00           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-15 15:37             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-15 16:01               ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-15 17:15                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-15 17:50                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-15 16:00           ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-15 23:09             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-04-16  3:44     ` Dan Nicolaescu

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