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Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit? |
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Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:58:40 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> Sounds about right, yes. I think I'd vote to keep the function/macro
> distinction displayed by default at least (and maybe function/command as
> well). Maybe simply as
>
> Function: (car LIST) ...
>
> Return the car of LIST. If arg is nil, return nil.
> Error if arg is not nil and not a cons cell. See also ‘car-safe’.
>
> See Info node ‘(elisp)Cons Cells’ for a discussion of related basic
> Lisp concepts such as car, cdr, cons cell and list.
Yes, that makes sense -- whether something's a macro or not is pretty
important information.
> Maybe you're right. Then again, I think it's worth keeping the block
> highlighted somehow to clearly indicate the difference between the
> docstring and the auto-generated metadata, maybe with a discreet
> background color.
Yes, that sounds good.
Should I perhaps just start a branch for this and start hacking? This
is the sort of thing that'll probably take a lot of tweaks to get right,
because it's all about aesthetics and readability.
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- Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/08
- RE: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Drew Adams, 2019/07/08
- Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/08
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- Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/09
- Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Howard Melman, 2019/07/09
- Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/10
- Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Howard Melman, 2019/07/10
- RE: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Drew Adams, 2019/07/10
Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/08