From: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: uppercase var names in docstrings
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:10:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1is92plin.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
A few months ago, the help code was changed so that C-h f now looks for the
uppercase variable names and makes them lowercase&italics (if the terminal
supports it).
I waited to see how I'd like it and I must say that I'm actually annoyed by
the lowercasing: it makes it much harder for me to find the spot in
a docstring where the use of a particular argument is described.
Basically the problem is that varnames don't stand out as much as before,
since the only thing that distinguishes them from normal text is
the italics.
Of course I can change my own setting easily, but if I'm not the only
oddball who feels this way, maybe it'd better to change the default so that
such varnames are only made italics but not lowercase.
Stefan
next reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 20:10 Stefan [this message]
2004-10-22 20:30 ` uppercase var names in docstrings Drew Adams
2004-10-22 20:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-22 22:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 22:28 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-22 22:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-22 22:44 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 21:52 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-22 22:36 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-23 13:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-23 0:42 ` Kenichi Handa
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