From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new *Help* argument highlighting Date: 09 May 2004 19:10:19 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040509222555.GA17587@fencepost> <20040510004429.F991.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084144317 18937 80.91.224.253 (9 May 2004 23:11:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 23:11:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 01:11:50 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 1BMxSY-0008AD-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 01:11:50 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMxSY-0007Q7-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 01:11:50 +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 1BMxRs-0003LM-Q9 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMxRh-0003K1-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMxR9-00032f-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMxR8-00031L-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 19:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAED2121D; Sun, 9 May 2004 19:10:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2B3658C6AE; Sun, 9 May 2004 19:10:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: <20040510004429.F991.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-1.428, requis 5, BAYES_20 -1.43) 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:22995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22995 >> The problem is that the argument names are already uppercase, and >> uppercase+italic looks kinda weird, certainly not very much like what's in >> the manuals. > I agree, but I don't see it as a problem because people can customize it. > What we're trying to find is a non-intrusive default, and italics seems > like a good one. I think uppercase is intrusive enough. It makes sense to add highlighting for cases where the user wants to highlight a particular argument (as in the original situation which prompted this long thread). But highlighting all args doesn't seem of much use to me. At leaqst with the current appearance where nothing's highlighted. I think the additional highlight would make more sense in a situation where the *Help* buffer uses a larger font for the function/variable name at the top (i.e. like a title), then some other font (probably courrier) for the usage, then yet some other (something proportional) for the body, ... Stefan