From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new *Help* argument highlighting Date: 10 May 2004 08:45:46 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040510023212.F99D.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> <20040510092433.5C7F.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084198424 7089 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 14:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 16:13:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNBXA-0003wQ-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 16:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNBXA-0001sf-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 16:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNAwi-0001AN-4F for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 09:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNAw8-00012u-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 09:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNAe8-0005Ms-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 09:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.84.69] (helo=colo.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.33) id 1BNAAS-0007Vn-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 08:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by colo.agora-net.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 1BNAAE-0008QA-00; Mon, 10 May 2004 08:45:46 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 10 May 2004 09:37:41 +0200" Original-Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:23035 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23035 suggestions: - recognize args by all-uppercase. - make only the first N instances of the arg stand out. - default N is 1, but add a user-defineable function to evaluate context and possibly return another number. - keep "stand out" as bold. this makes it easy to locate the general area of an arg's description, w/o overwhelming decoration, by default, and at the same time allow programmers who like to explore their heuristical sensibilities go wild. thi