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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?
- 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, 2007/09/06
- RE: display-completion-list should not strip text properties,
Drew Adams <=
- 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
- Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/05