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Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties
From: |
Edward O'Connor |
Subject: |
Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:04:15 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) |
>>> 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*? This smells like feeping creaturism
to me.
--
Edward O'Connor
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Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, (continued)
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/04
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Drew Adams, 2007/09/04
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Davis Herring, 2007/09/04
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/05
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Drew Adams, 2007/09/05
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/06
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Drew Adams, 2007/09/06
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties,
Edward O'Connor <=
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Drew Adams, 2007/09/06
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/09/06
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Davis Herring, 2007/09/06
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/09/07
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/08
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/07
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Drew Adams, 2007/09/07
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, David Kastrup, 2007/09/06
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Drew Adams, 2007/09/06
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/07