Re: new *Help* argument highlighting

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, 8 May 2004 19:49:56 -0400, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think that if the highlighted args are too noticeable, we should reduce
> their highlighting, not start highlighting everything else.

Yes.

Personally I find arg highlighting very useful (it helps me a lot to
quickly extract information from help buffers, in particular from
long-winded docstrings) but I think the key is that args are somewhat
more visible, not the absolute focus of attention. That would be
distracting.

> Personally I wish we had even more subtle
> methods of highlighting (e.g., an underline with very sparsely-spaced dots
> instead of a solid line).

That could perhaps be done with stipples, but seems a bit over the top.
Another alternative is to use a soft shade of gray, for example this:

(defface myhelp-argument-name '(((background light) :foreground "gray45")
                                ((background dark) :foreground "gray70"))
         "Face to highlight argument names in *Help* buffers")

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