From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40900: Add face for function params in info Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:22:25 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83mu6x3r4k.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6298"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 40900@debbugs.gnu.org, ndame To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 15:23:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kG048-0001Vf-FJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Wed, 09 Sep 2020 06:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:22:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <83mu6x3r4k.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:06:19 +0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:187648 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:46:02 +0000 >> From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" >> >> The Elisp info manual could be easier to read if parameters which are ca= pitalized >> could have a face too: >> >> If the minibuffer prompt string PROMPT does not end in =E2=80=98:=E2= =80=99 ... >> >> >> Though I don't know if it's possible to add language specific faces to i= nfo, >> because a capitalized word could mean something else in an other languag= e. >> >> Maybe a face like Info-elisp-param-face which is added only if the curre= nt >> info is about elisp? > > I think the challenge is to reliably identify the strings that are > function parameters. Info files lack the markup that identifies > various symbols in the Texinfo sources, and the code which finds > function arguments must not err too much, or users will complain. Isn't this therefore a limitation in Texinfo? We could of course hack around it, but it sounds like it would risk being error-prone and hard to maintain.