From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..."
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:45:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558C848E.7080108@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558C8354.6090308@yandex.ru>
Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>
>> I have been seriously considering font-lock approaches but so far they
>> appear to be more confusing and less reliable than the alternatives.
>> For example, how would font-lock alter the quotes that Emacs outputs in
>> batch diagnostics?
>
> It probably won't, you'll need a different function.
OK, that can be the format-message function already discussed. So the font-lock
proposal isn't intended to address the problem of diagnostics, or of info or
help buffers for that matter; it's intended only to address the issue of
displaying docstrings to a developer who's editing Elisp code. Is that correct?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-25 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-25 14:59 A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..." Oleh Krehel
2015-06-25 15:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-25 16:36 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-25 17:00 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-06-25 20:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-25 21:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-25 22:15 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-25 22:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-25 22:41 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-25 22:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-27 15:00 ` raman
2015-06-25 18:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-25 22:17 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-25 22:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-26 2:35 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-26 12:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-27 17:28 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-27 17:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-27 21:09 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-28 1:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-28 15:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-28 20:27 ` Escaping quotes in docstrings, Was: " Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-28 23:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-01 2:56 ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-02 0:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-02 6:57 ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-02 9:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-06 6:12 ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-06 12:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-06 16:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-06 22:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-07 7:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-07 8:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-01 1:36 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-01 21:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-02 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-02 12:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-02 15:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-02 18:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-02 8:49 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-08-02 19:16 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-27 17:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-25 23:12 ` João Távora
2015-06-26 7:40 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-06-26 14:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-26 15:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-25 20:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-25 22:34 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-25 22:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-25 22:45 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-06-25 22:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
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