From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new *Help* argument highlighting
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:40:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BNzay-0007hP-Cy@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040511155531.7604.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Tue, 11 May 2004 15:56:54 +0200)
> So he can customize two things instead of one. That is no big deal.
> (Only a few people will customize this.)
I'm not entirely sure whether that means "OK, let's use lowercase
italics and have a face and a -function var", or I'm just misreading
English again :)
To say that a user can customize something does not necessarily mean
introducing a defcustom to customize it. That is one of many
customization mechanisms in Emacs. Another customization mechanism
is to redefine a function.
Some customizations are natural to do in that way, and some are
important enough to be worth installing a defcustom for. But we
should refuse to fall into thinking automatically "add a defcustom"
whenever we think something might want to be changed by some users.
Many of those things are definitely not worth adding a defcustom for.
I am not sure what is the best way to recommend users deal with
customizing this, when they want to customize this. It depends
on how often anyone will want to change that. That depends
on other things.
I think the least we can do is make lowercasing depending on whether
face-differs-from-default-p returns true.
If it does what I think it does.
Detecting automatically when to do this is much better than adding a
separate defcustom to control whether to downcase.
(Meanwhile, in the long term, we also have the idea of defining a new
way to indicate variable names in doc strings. With that, it won't be
a matter of downcasing any more. But the issue of deciding whether to
upcase will replace it.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-12 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 173+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-07 5:32 new *Help* argument highlighting Miles Bader
2004-05-07 8:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-08 22:22 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-08 23:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-08 23:47 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-09 0:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-08 23:49 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-09 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-09 18:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-09 22:25 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-09 22:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-09 23:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-09 23:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 0:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 0:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 0:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 0:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 1:32 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-10 7:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 2:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 7:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 12:45 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-05-10 13:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 16:18 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-05-10 19:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 21:54 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-05-11 15:57 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-11 20:58 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-11 21:51 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-11 22:58 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-11 22:08 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-05-11 0:07 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-11 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-11 15:28 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-11 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-10 21:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 21:28 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 21:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 22:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 21:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 21:57 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 22:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 22:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-11 8:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 7:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-12 8:15 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 8:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 9:25 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 9:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-13 15:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-13 17:33 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-13 15:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-11 10:53 ` Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-11 11:20 ` Bug tracking Lars Hansen
2004-06-11 11:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-11 11:39 ` Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Kim F. Storm
2004-06-11 12:40 ` Bug tracking Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-11 14:21 ` Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Miles Bader
2004-06-11 15:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-11 22:29 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 9:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-12 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-12 2:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 8:15 ` Lars Hansen
2004-06-13 0:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-13 0:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 8:37 ` Bug tracking Juri Linkov
2004-06-12 9:38 ` Lars Hansen
2004-06-12 15:28 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-14 13:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-14 15:09 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-14 15:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-14 16:32 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-13 0:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-13 0:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 11:55 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-06-13 14:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 16:04 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-14 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-14 21:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-14 23:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-14 23:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-15 8:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-16 16:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-13 22:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-13 23:52 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 12:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 15:38 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-12 22:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 23:06 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-13 0:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 0:50 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-13 1:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 16:00 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-13 22:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 23:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-14 7:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-14 7:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-14 16:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-06-14 21:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-15 1:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-06-15 13:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 21:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-13 23:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 0:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-12 18:26 ` Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Karl Fogel
2004-06-12 20:03 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-13 2:39 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 21:01 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-13 3:34 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 21:52 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-13 11:31 ` Bug tracking Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 13:28 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-13 14:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-13 12:19 ` Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Jason Rumney
2004-06-13 9:06 ` David Kastrup
2004-06-13 14:26 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-06-13 14:36 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-13 23:29 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-06-13 14:29 ` Bug tracking Oliver Scholz
2004-06-14 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-14 21:17 ` Tak Ota
2004-06-16 16:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-16 17:59 ` Tak Ota
2004-06-14 18:50 ` Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Richard Stallman
2004-06-14 20:19 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-16 16:58 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-12 10:47 ` new *Help* argument highlighting Kenichi Handa
2004-05-12 11:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 11:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-12 11:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 13:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-12 13:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 14:06 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 13:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-05-12 22:18 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-17 1:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-17 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-18 12:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-17 14:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-05-17 22:23 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 23:28 ` fill docstring (Re: new *Help* argument highlighting) Kenichi Handa
2004-05-17 1:16 ` new *Help* argument highlighting Kenichi Handa
2004-05-17 7:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-17 7:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-12 12:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 13:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-12 13:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-11 9:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-10 23:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-11 8:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-11 12:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 13:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-11 14:36 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-11 14:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 19:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-05-12 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-13 1:18 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 1:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-13 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-13 7:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-13 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-13 21:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-13 1:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-14 9:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 16:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-05-11 18:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 0:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-12 18:29 ` Romain Francoise
2004-05-13 1:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-13 6:55 ` Romain Francoise
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