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From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Subject: Re: uppercase var names in docstrings
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:56:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002001c4b87a$2b95e060$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FDELKNEBLPKKDCEBEJCBGEKICIAA.drew.adams@oracle.com

I am not very fond of italics on screen. They tend to appear rugged, at
least on my screens. Uppercase have been a good alternative for me, but
maybe bold italics is less rugged than just italics?

- Lennart

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Stefan" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>; <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: RE: uppercase var names in docstrings


: FWIW, my impression is the same as Stefan's.
:
: I think it might be good to try bold italic (and lowercase); I believe
that
: would stand out sufficiently. If bold italic is not supported by a given
: face, then bold would be a good second choice, plain uppercase being a
third
: choice. - Drew
:
:
: -----Original Message-----From: Stefan
: A few months ago, the help code was changed so that C-h f now looks for
the
: uppercase variable names and makes them lowercase&italics (if the terminal
: supports it).
:
: I waited to see how I'd like it and I must say that I'm actually annoyed
by
: the lowercasing: it makes it much harder for me to find the spot in
: a docstring where the use of a particular argument is described.
:
: Basically the problem is that varnames don't stand out as much as before,
: since the only thing that distinguishes them from normal text is
: the italics.
:
: Of course I can change my own setting easily, but if I'm not the only
: oddball who feels this way, maybe it'd better to change the default so
that
: such varnames are only made italics but not lowercase.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-22 20:10 uppercase var names in docstrings Stefan
2004-10-22 20:30 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-22 20:56   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2004-10-22 22:26     ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 22:28       ` David Kastrup
2004-10-22 22:33       ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-22 22:44         ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 21:52 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-22 22:36 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 23:27   ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-23 13:54   ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-23  0:42 ` Kenichi Handa

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