From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:45:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877in93z6c.fsf@jurta.org> <87wsv71esh.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188924615 1079 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 16:50:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 18:50:09 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 1ISbbK-0008PZ-Uf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:50:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISbbJ-0004dd-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISbX9-0006sY-Jd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISbX8-0006rg-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISbX8-0006rP-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISbX8-0007Ki-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISbWs-00076c-3y; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:45:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wsv71esh.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:48:28 +0300) 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:77752 Archived-At: I think a better approach is to use a markup language in doc strings, be it XHTML or even TexinfoML. Then using a style sheet it can be formatted nicely in the Help buffer. Example of a doc string: (defun foo () "To create a file, just visit it with C-x C-f. See also find-file-literally." ) I don't want to go down that route. It is a lot of complexity, and an invitation to keep adding more. I would rather we work on other things (see etc/TODO).