Re: new *Help* argument highlighting

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:54:11 -0400, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>Yes, it would be good to downcase them in the Help buffer as well as
>>italicizing them.
>
> That's a one-line patch, and the effect is nice, and scarcely intrusive.
> However, it has the problem that if someone customizes
> help-argument-face to the default face, he's lost also the uppercase, so
> now arguments do not stand out at all.
>
> To solve that, we'd have do something like:
>
> (defvar help-arg-highlighting-function
>   #'(lambda (arg) (propertize (downcase arg) 'face '(:slant italic)))
>   "Function to call to highlight argument names in `describe-function' *Help* 
buffers.")
>
> instead of having a help-argument-name face.

No, you just need to check (face-differs-from-default-p
'help-argument-name) before downcasing the argument.

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Kevin Rodgers