From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Undocumented hyperlinks in doc strings. Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:16:11 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310090050.h990oIa15681@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065734656 28440 80.91.224.253 (9 Oct 2003 21:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:24:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 23:24:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7iGc-00056L-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 23:24:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7iGc-0006RB-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 23:24:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A7iCh-00080t-PL for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A7iBx-00080P-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:19:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A7iBR-0007pF-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A7iBR-0007p6-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1A7i8p-0004xc-UI; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:16:11 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200310090050.h990oIa15681@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 8 Oct 2003 19:50:18 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:17012 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17012 If the reason would be that `default' is a face, then apart from the lack of documentation (which could easily be fixed), I would also have the less easily fixed objection that faces just tend to have extremely common names such as `default', `mouse', `menu', `region', `button' `border', `fringe', `bold', and countless equally common ones, that are used for tons of other purposes. Perhaps it would be a good idea not to make a hyperlink to a face name unless the word "face" precedes or follows the face name. Would you like to implement that change?