From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: uppercase var names in docstrings Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:42:06 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200410230042.JAA07322@etlken.m17n.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098492179 3829 80.91.229.6 (23 Oct 2004 00:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 23 02:42:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CL9zT-0001B5-00 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLA6z-0000sz-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLA6s-0000st-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLA6r-0000sh-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLA6r-0000se-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CL9z0-0006JK-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id i9N0g79d003538; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:42:07 +0900 Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by fs.m17n.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i9N0g6F13936; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:42:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id JAA07322; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:42:06 +0900 (JST) Original-To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca In-reply-to: (message from Stefan on Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:10:53 -0400) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28763 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28763 In article , Stefan writes: > 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. Me too. > 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. I fully agree with that. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org