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Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs |
Date: |
23 May 2002 16:08:21 +0900 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Whether it is bold or underlined is just a matter of how
> we define the face that it uses, right?
Yup
> One point about this style: I tried with both one and two spaces as
> separators following the commas, and I found it much more readable with
> two spaces.
>
> Do you feel it needs two spaces *and* a comma?
Yes. I tried the various other combinations, and while nothing really
looked _bad_, comma-space-space seemed the best.
The reason, I think, is that it emphasizes the fact that what's being
displayed is a list of separate entries -- the comma basically suggests
`list', and the wide whitespace suggests `separate'. Using just
comma-space makes the menu look like a list of _words_ (an effect which
obviously gets worse if any label actually contains multiple words), and
using just space-space looks somehow not list-like enough.
So I think comma-space-space is the best, but that space-space is
better than comma-space.
> What about if we delete the spaces around the ='s, as Mario Lang
> suggested?
I don't like it, since it makes it harder to quickly identify which is
the key and which is the label.
> Is there any reason we couldn't make it call out to lisp to do the
> formatting?
>
> It's ok with me if someone finds it easy to do.
I'll look at it.
-Miles
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- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, (continued)
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/05/19
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/05/20
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Alex Schroeder, 2002/05/20
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/20
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/20
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Mario Lang, 2002/05/21
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/05/21
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/22
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/05/21
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/22
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Mario Lang, 2002/05/23
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/05/23
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/20
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/18
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/18
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/19
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/16
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/16
Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, D. Goel, 2002/05/15