Re: help-default-arg-highlight

[Glenn Morris]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

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

I've done that, but I was reporting this because I think the behaviour
of Emacs in this regard is inadequate and should be fixed. Somehow...

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

Seems to me like that would be a better idea, but I get the impression
it's been discussed to death already, and I'm too apathetic to lobby.

>  - 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)

Can't think of anything, sorry.

(with-devils-advocate
  Or put things back to how they were)

More seriously, it seems like a nice enough feature.