Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Juri Linkov]

>> And the easiest way to do this is to change properties.
>
> I am not concerned about the easiest, but an appropriate way.

Emacs should be easy to use and customize, not appropriate for some
abstract goal.

>> Since there were complaints that property lists are "hidden" from
>> users, I propose the following patch to display them in the output of
>> `describe-function' and `describe-variable'.
>
> Properties are not part of either variable or function.  They are part
> of the symbol.

So what?  There are already about 200 distinct properties in Emacs
attached indirectly to functions and variables via symbols, and they
modify the default behavior, so the documentation should reveal them
to users.

> Lisp is Lisp, and Scheme is Scheme.

And Emacs is Emacs (_extensible_, _customizable_, _self-documenting_
real-time display editor).

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/