Re: help-default-arg-highlight

[Miles Bader]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ok, this version actually seems to work correctly on both ttys and X:
>> 
>>    (defun face-differs-from-default-p (face &optional frame)
>
> How would that help in the help-default-arg-highlight case? You cannot
> do (face-font '(:italic t)) or (face-differs-from-default-p '(:italic t))

It would be very easy (trivial) to make those work, but:

> Are you proposing that the italic font be used by default, i.e.
>   (if (face-differs-from-default-p 'italic)
>       (propertize (downcase arg) 'face 'italic)

This seems the right thing to me, at least for the moment.  Why _not_
use the standard `italic' face?  If the user generally prefers some
other representation for italic text, wouldn't it make sense to respect
it in this case too?

-Miles
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