From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:35:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEEDJCCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IT9T4-000510-6d@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > Why do we need to put properties other that the `face' property
> > in doc strings? There are already ways to make links.
>
> To include graphics in Help, for one thing.
>
> Is that really something we should get into?
> I think we should not.
Why not?
Help, and documentation generally, often call upon graphics to aid
communication.
Just having the possibility to include graphics does not, of course, mean
that it's a good idea to stuff tons of screenshots, icons, and other
graphics into help. But having the possibility means that when it is
appropriate to add a graphic you can do so easily.
> That doesn't mean I am opposed to including some feature that would
> make it possible. I would not be against that if it were clean, not a
> lot of work, etc. But it is not a goal.
Johan's one-line fix (which you have now OK'd - thanks) makes it possible
and easy to do so for variables. The same is not true for functions (defun),
however.
I think it would be worthwhile to ease doing this for both variables and
functions by supporting some simplifying syntactic sugar (I proposed some).
I have no idea how much work would be involved in implementing that support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 16:35 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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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