Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties

[tomas]

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:48:28AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> >     Or using \, like in the query-replace string to eval part of the
> >     replacement string:
> >
> >     (defun foo ()
> >       "mumble \\,(propertize "toto" 'face 'highlight) titi"
> >       whatever)
> >
> > That is a clean feature.
> 
> I proposed only a new syntax for this feature, but now after thinking more
> about the whole idea, I see that this feature is too ad-hoc.  Allowing to
> eval arbitrary expressions while printing the doc string in the Help
> buffer is too fragile approach.  There is no guarantee that after all
> interacting evaluations there will a readable result in the Help buffer.

Right, but it could be Limited By Convention (TM). And Lisp even makes
it easy to check those limits...

> I think a better approach is to use a markup language in doc strings,
> be it XHTML or even TexinfoML.  Then using a style sheet it can be
> formatted nicely in the Help buffer.  Example of a doc string:

My gut reaction is "Oh, no. Not Yet Another *ML". It's not very
constructive, but gut reactions ain't fair or constructive -- sorry for
that :-(

(maybe those angle brackets just hurt my tummy too much ;)

Thanks
- -- tomás
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