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Re: new *Help* argument highlighting
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: new *Help* argument highlighting |
Date: |
Mon, 10 May 2004 02:11:32 +0200 |
On 09 May 2004 20:00:07 -0400, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> I just find it odd to highlight arguments more than, say, the function's
> name (i.e. basically the title of the help buffer).
I've read that already on the thread, and I find it very surprising.
When I read a describe-function *Help* buffer, I'm never interested in
the function's name: I already know that, I *typed* it. In 100% of cases,
the reason I type C-h f is precisely to find what to pass to the args.
In a great many cases, I'm interested in just a few args, because the
others I remember from previous uses of the function, so having a way to
quickly determine where on the docstring are these args referred seems a
big win, performance-wise. I think other people must be using C-h f in
very different ways to mine...
> Maybe italics will make it less strange, but the current bold I see is just
> very surprising because it highlights (in the literal sense) parts of the
> docstring as if they were THE-THING-I-VE-BEEN-LOOKING-FOR, even when it
> has strictly no indication that it's what I'm interested in.
Bold, or italics, just reinforce the convention already stated by using
uppercase, I think.
> I didn't say fruit salad. I meant a sober presentation like you'd find in
> a book (e.g. generated from Texinfo).
Yeah, sorry, I didn't intend to imply that. But I get the feeling (I can
be wrong) that there are people who simply likes the Help buffers with
no highlighting/font-locking at all. That's also a bit surprising to me,
given that we use font-locking in a lot of cases, like the recently
added `completions-fist-difference' and `completions-common-part' faces.
It's not like help-argument-name introduces highlighting on an otherwise
very sober Emacs environment... :)
> No colors, please.
No, not as default. I don't think anyone would like that.
/L/e/k/t/u
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, (continued)
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Miles Bader, 2004/05/08
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/08
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Miles Bader, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Miles Bader, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/09
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/10
- Re: new *Help* argument highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/10