Re: help-default-arg-highlight

[Juanma Barranquero]

> Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> When this feature was being discussed on emacs-devel, it was
> predicted that this would happen.

Yes, with the feeling that:

 1) it would be infrequent
 2) we would try to fix it when/if it happened

So now we're on 2) time :)

AFAICS, you have (at least) three options:

 - redefine or advise `help-default-arg-highlight' in your .emacs to do
   other kind of highlighting

 - (variant of the above): lobby to have a customizable face for arg
   highlighting, defaulting to the italic face. That should work for you.

 - think of a way we can detect setups like yours so we can do a better
   `help-default-arg-highlight' (I tried `face-differs-from-default-p',
   without success)

On Fri, 28 May 2004 14:38:34 +0300
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:

> But I don't understand why not to use a special `help-argument-name'
> face like it was already added to help-fns.el but eventually removed.
> Redefining a function is too ugly way to customize a face.

I couldn't agree more; redefining a function is too ugly a way to
customize anything (IMHO, etc.).

But RMS felt that few users would want to change the default
highlighting anyway, and Emacs already has too many options for
micro-features.

                                                                Juanma