Re: function arguments downcased in help buffers

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

  > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
  > 
  > >   > For me in the current CVS trunk with emacs -Q, they arguments are in
  > >   > the default face.
  > >
  > >  As they are in 22.[12], but in that version they are upper case.
  > 
  > They are not (in the default face, or shown uppercase). They are in

Maybe they are lower case in your setup (Windows?), they very much are
in mine.

emacs-22.2 -Q -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 

clearly shows that arguments in upper case.


  > the help-argument-name face. That change is in since around may 2004.

And help-argument-name is not distinguishable from the default case in
that setup:

Face: help-argument-name (sample) (customize this face)
Documentation: Face to highlight argument names in *Help* buffers.
Defined in `help-fns.el'.

         Family: unspecified
          Width: unspecified
         Height: unspecified
         Weight: unspecified
          Slant: unspecified
     Foreground: unspecified
     Background: unspecified
      Underline: unspecified
       Overline: unspecified
 Strike-through: unspecified
            Box: unspecified
        Inverse: unspecified
        Stipple: unspecified
Font or fontset: unspecified
        Inherit: unspecified

lucidasanstypewriter used to be (maybe still is) the
one of the more popular fixed width fonts.  
So this change had absolutely no effect on everyone using that font
(and maybe other fonts too).

Probably with the changes in the font backend something in that code
changed, and not the help-argument-name appears the same, but the
arguments are downcased now, that is what made this old change apparent
now.

The face is not a problem, but it is just odd to downcase the text.
I do consider this a bug, but if everyone likes that as a default, then
so be it.