From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: option doc strings and Customize tags Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:01:02 -0600 Message-ID: References: <005601c9385f$86a998c0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <4907637E.8090402@gmx.at> <005201c93933$6bd2eb30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <005301c93936$4a358b10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <005401c9393b$41ee26b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225342889 3550 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2008 05:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:01:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 06:02:30 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KvPfs-0007MQ-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:02:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KvPel-0002pE-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KvPeh-0002p7-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KvPeg-0002oo-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43618 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KvPef-0002ol-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33148 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvPef-0007wu-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KvPeZ-0002GJ-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:01:03 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:01:03 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:01:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:105165 Archived-At: 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. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA