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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read-multiple and read-face-name are not in Elisp manual
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:09:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ir9j4mfl.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDEIJAFNGDOAGCJIPKPBOECPCFAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 11\:48\:45 -0700")

> I find nothing about this behavior described anywhere in the Emacs manual or
> the Elisp manual. How will users understand the UI? How will programmers
> understand how these functions work (without examining the code in detail)?

This is an optional feature that users can encounter only when running
`describe-face' on the face name in the `defface' definition (where one face
gets picked from the face name, and another from the face used to highlight
it by font-lock mode - font-lock-variable-name).

However, this feature could be documented and developed further to e.g.
allowing selecting multiple faces from the *Completions* buffer, inserting
them into the minibuffer separated by a comma, and calling a multi-command
on them.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-19 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-19 18:48 completing-read-multiple and read-face-name are not in Elisp manual Drew Adams
2007-06-19 22:09 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2007-06-19 22:47   ` Drew Adams
2007-06-20 14:07     ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-20 13:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 13:41   ` Drew Adams

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