From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com,
bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se
Subject: Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:49:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070904084911.GA10705@www.trapp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsv71esh.fsf@jurta.org>
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:48:28AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > Or using \, like in the query-replace string to eval part of the
> > replacement string:
> >
> > (defun foo ()
> > "mumble \\,(propertize "toto" 'face 'highlight) titi"
> > whatever)
> >
> > That is a clean feature.
>
> I proposed only a new syntax for this feature, but now after thinking more
> about the whole idea, I see that this feature is too ad-hoc. Allowing to
> eval arbitrary expressions while printing the doc string in the Help
> buffer is too fragile approach. There is no guarantee that after all
> interacting evaluations there will a readable result in the Help buffer.
Right, but it could be Limited By Convention (TM). And Lisp even makes
it easy to check those limits...
> I think a better approach is to use a markup language in doc strings,
> be it XHTML or even TexinfoML. Then using a style sheet it can be
> formatted nicely in the Help buffer. Example of a doc string:
My gut reaction is "Oh, no. Not Yet Another *ML". It's not very
constructive, but gut reactions ain't fair or constructive -- sorry for
that :-(
(maybe those angle brackets just hurt my tummy too much ;)
Thanks
- -- tomás
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-22 17:23 display-completion-list should not strip text properties Drew Adams
2007-01-22 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-23 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-23 5:10 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-23 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-24 8:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-24 23:43 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-01-25 10:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-26 13:17 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-01-27 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-01 19:56 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-02 18:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-03 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-03 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-04 5:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-04 9:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-04 8:49 ` tomas [this message]
2007-09-04 9:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-04 10:56 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-04 22:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-04 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-04 18:51 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-04 22:46 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-05 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-05 14:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 4:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 20:04 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-09-06 20:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 23:08 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 23:42 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-07 12:30 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-08 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 19:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-06 20:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 20:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-07 6:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-05 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-20 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-02 16:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-02 18:51 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-03 21:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-03 21:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-04 14:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-03 22:03 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-04 14:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-04 14:59 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-05 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-05 23:20 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-05 23:45 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-06 1:15 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-06 1:59 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 2:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-06 4:18 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-06 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 14:47 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 16:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-06 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-07 12:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 17:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-06 19:23 ` Kevin Rodgers changes Chong Yidong
2007-04-07 7:32 ` martin rudalics
2007-04-07 12:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-07 16:57 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-07 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-08 12:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-08 21:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 14:33 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-04-09 15:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-08 21:30 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-09 15:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-11 16:38 ` display-completion-list should not strip text properties Markus Triska
2007-04-11 17:13 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-04 17:45 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-04-05 14:36 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-05 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-05 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-24 7:07 ` Kevin Rodgers
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