From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stefan_Reich=F6r?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:32:48 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040430014041.F09B.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 1083303441 9477 80.91.224.253 (30 Apr 2004 05:37:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 05:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 30 07:37:13 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 1BJQi1-0005uf-00 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJQi1-0004Z7-00 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJQfU-0008Lw-RD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJQf7-0008LX-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJQeW-0008BJ-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.78.161.123] (helo=proxy.riic.at) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BJQeW-0008AN-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from nanni.riic.uni-linz.ac.at.riic.at (nanni.riic.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.161.79]) by proxy.riic.at (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i3U5XU8a031003 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:33:30 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20040430014041.F09B.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:48:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (berkeley-unix) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS - amavis-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) 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:22411 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22411 Hi Juanma! > Related to that, here's a (proof-of-concept) patch that sets the face > `font-lock-variable-name-face' for all uses of the arguments of a > function in a `describe-function' *Help* buffer. > > I say proof-of-concept because I've not provided a way to make it > optional, I've hard-coded the face used, etc. Still, it works > beautifully. > > The auxiliary function help-highlight-arguments is designed in such a > way that it can be pased a nil WORDS argument (and then it highlights > all arguments of the function), or a list of desired arguments to > highlight, so it can be of help if highlighting info for an argument is > desired (which was discused in this thread). > > Opinions? I looks very good! Stefan.