From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Kevin Rodgers" <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: option doc strings and Customize tags
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:06:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50810292306w63dcd6f6u3c7589a300abf250@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gebf26$3cj$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Kevin Rodgers
<kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>> What I tried to say is:
>>
>> - In the initial display show all values together, but replace the
>> long values with a link.
>>
>> - This link should lead to a second display (in *Help*) where also all
>> values are shown together. Here the long values should of course be
>> shown. There should also be a short explanation what this display is
>> about (and a link back, but that is nearly automatic if the first
>> display is in *Help* too).
>
> Would it make sense to display long values in the same way as evaluation
> results in the *scratch* buffer? i.e. with text properties that allow
> the user to toggle between the abbreviated value and the complete value.
To me it looks like a good idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 18:12 option doc strings and Customize tags Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:09 ` martin rudalics
2008-10-28 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30 5:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-30 6:06 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-10-29 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-29 6:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-29 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-30 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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