From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: hyperlinks in variable's value - links to libraries
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:47:16 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17341.63060.125701.419230@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICIECNDBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Resending. Shall I assume no one is interested?
>
> ;; Hyperlinks in variable's value are quite frequently
> ;; inappropriate e.g C-h v <RET> features <RET>
> ;; (help-xref-on-pp from (point))
>
> I disagree with the "fix" of commenting out this
> line - at the least, I would like such links to be an option.
I commented it out, rather than remove it, in case someone came up with a
better solution, not for someone to lobby to revert it. I don't think it was
in response to a report you made and `features' was just an example, although
I can't remember the others.
Many variables like mode-line-format or after-load-list have a lot of
underlining, some of which isn't that helpful (a user is hardly likely to want
click on concat or user-init-file) and it makes it harder to see what you're
looking at.
I think its best not to lead users anywhere than up the garden path. The doc
strings on the other hand can be more carefully crafted to DTRT.
> Although it can be slow, it is very useful: looking at `features'
> should be an entry point to accessing the features listed.
The links are still available on mouse-2 as help-follow, they're just not
underlined or highlighted. Having a help-echo saying "mouse-2, RET: describe
this function" while over a feature is not helpful IMO, a hinder-echo you
could say.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-01 21:19 hyperlinks in variable's value - links to libraries Drew Adams
2006-01-06 3:23 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-06 4:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-06 9:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-06 17:10 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-09 1:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-06 4:47 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2006-01-06 17:10 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-06 22:35 ` Nick Roberts
2006-01-07 1:01 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-07 2:14 ` Nick Roberts
2006-01-07 15:38 ` Drew Adams
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