Re: new *Help* argument highlighting

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
>>  > But it hardly makes a difference -- the first line of doc: comments
>>  > in C-code DEFUNs are typically indented so much that they usually
>>  > _already_ go way past the left margin.
>>  
>>  In such a case, can't we put the docstring as this?
>>  
>>             doc: /*
>>  Long long long long long long long long long first line of the docstring.

> You could I suppose (though I don't know if that has any funny
> interaction with the doc-string processing code), 

I used such format in emacs-unicode branch and it seems that
doc-string processing code has no problem with that format.

> but people don't seem
> to, and instead just let the line overflow.  Perhaps that's because
> c-mode, if given the chance, will screw up the indentation of such a
> line, so it can be a pain to _keep_ that way (e.g., if you type a */ at
> the end the line, bang, c-mode will put the indentation back...).

Yes.  If we are going to promote that format, we should
adjust the behaviour of c-mode.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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