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


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:16:17 -0700

> >>> Why do we need to put properties other that the `face' property
> >>> in doc strings?  There are already ways to make links.
> >>
> >> To include graphics in Help, for one thing.
> >>
> >> Is that really something we should get into?
> >> I think we should not.
>
> > Why not?
>
> > Help, and documentation generally, often call upon graphics to aid
> > communication.
>
> Manuals are often improved by graphics that help to illuminate the
> subject matter, but *docstrings*?

Why not? We're talking about the _possibility_ of adding a graphic, not the
obligation to do so. Can you not imagine any doc string that might usefully
take advantage of this? No use of an icon? Lack of imagination?





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