From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vinicius Jose Latorre Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:17:42 -0200 Message-ID: <45B9FF76.7030404@ig.com.br> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169817424 5227 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2007 13:17:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:17:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Johan_Bockg=E5rd?= To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 14:16:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HAQwo-00005u-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:16:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAQwn-0001aP-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAQwa-0001VD-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:16:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAQwY-0001ST-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:16:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAQwY-0001SL-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpout11.uol.com.br ([200.221.4.202] helo=smtp.uol.com.br) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HAQwX-00036b-FA; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by socom5.uol.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E5B4003A5E; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:16:35 -0200 (BRST) Original-Received: from [201.82.35.154] (unknown [201.82.35.154]) by socom5.uol.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A6D4003BF1; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:16:30 -0200 (BRST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1 In-Reply-To: X-SIG5: c81ed2bcb11ab9f5a582629c1a19123e X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65484 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Here's a related, simple, change that I've been sitting on for a long > time. By putting text properties on doc strings you can insert images > and other fancy stuff in the *Help* buffer. This change makes > describe-variable preserve text properties (describe-function already > does so): > > There is no clean and easy way to put text properties on a doc string, > so I think this is not very useful in the present context. > > If someone comes up with a clean way to do that, this would be a > useful part of the combination. We could think then about installing > it. > One way to "insert images and other fancy stuff" in doc string, could be to use a wiki-like language in the doc string. The doc string have some minimal special sequence substring like: \[COMMAND] \{MAPVAR} \ \= Maybe these special sequences could be extended to have, for example: \==HEADER1== \===HEADER2=== \#image{SOME-REFERENCE-TO-AN-IMAGE} \#h1{HEADER1} \#h2{HEADER2} ...etc... and other doc stuff. Obviously, this should be done after the release.