From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: bob@rattlesnake.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:42:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36962.128.165.123.18.1189122145.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ITQSe-002KHjC@rattlesnake.com>
> If a person is listening to Emacs (via Emacspeak) because they are
> driving a car, I do not want them on the same road as me if the
> docstring fails them. I can imagine all too well of someone else
> taking is eyes off the road to look at a graphic or icon on a computer
> screen.
Er, what? I've never heard of anyone consulting Emacs docstrings while
driving. I'm much more worried about people trying to watch movies or
read (with their eyes, because they don't know about Emacs or Emacspeak)
email while on the road. The possibility that we might tempt someone so
foolish with a pretty picture in a manual or docstring is not worth
considering. That said, there might of course be other reasons
(stylistic, technical, or accessibility-oriented) to have text-only
docstrings; this just isn't one as far as I can tell.
Davis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-22 17:23 display-completion-list should not strip text properties Drew Adams
2007-01-22 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-23 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-23 5:10 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-23 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-24 8:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-24 23:43 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-01-25 10:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-26 13:17 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-01-27 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-01 19:56 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-02 18:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-03 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-03 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-04 5:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-04 9:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-04 8:49 ` tomas
2007-09-04 9:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-04 10:56 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-04 22:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-04 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-04 18:51 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-04 22:46 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-05 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-05 14:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 4:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 20:04 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-09-06 20:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 23:08 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 23:42 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2007-09-07 12:30 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-08 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 19:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 20:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 20:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-07 6:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-05 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-20 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-02 16:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-02 18:51 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-03 21:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-03 21:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-04 14:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-03 22:03 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-04 14:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-04 14:59 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-05 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-05 23:20 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-05 23:45 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-06 1:15 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-06 1:59 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 2:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-06 4:18 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-06 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 14:47 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 16:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-06 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-07 12:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 17:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-06 19:23 ` Kevin Rodgers changes Chong Yidong
2007-04-07 7:32 ` martin rudalics
2007-04-07 12:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-07 16:57 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-07 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-08 12:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-08 21:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 14:33 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-04-09 15:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-08 21:30 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-09 15:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-11 16:38 ` display-completion-list should not strip text properties Markus Triska
2007-04-11 17:13 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-04 17:45 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-04-05 14:36 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-05 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-05 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-24 7:07 ` Kevin Rodgers
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