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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, sva-news@mygooglest.com, 16439@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:03:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6xngp2g.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvppnmags6.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:10:28 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> The problem is how to highlight strings only in code samples
>> because in other places highlighting "..." makes no sense.
>> Look for example in the node (info "(emacs) Package Keywords"):
>>   Most optional features in Emacs are grouped into "packages".
>> Should "packages" be highlighted as a string.  Of course not.
>> There is no additional emphasis on quotations in books.
>
> Indeed.  The "right answer" is to move away from the Info format and
> rely on something more structured that we could render in a much more
> pretty way, using bold, italics, and friends.

Yup.  I don't think there's anything much that can be done here that
won't break other examples, so I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14 10:15 bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers Sebastien Vauban
2014-01-14 14:34 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-14 20:05   ` Drew Adams
2014-01-20  9:18     ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-20 14:10       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-18 14:03         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-01-20 15:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-21  7:54         ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-21 15:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22  8:09             ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-22 15:42               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-20 18:06       ` Drew Adams

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