GNU bug report logs - #4520
downcasing function arguments by default not appropriate in multi-tty

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:35:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: downcasing function arguments by default not appropriate in multi-tty
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:27:15 -0700 (PDT)

*Help* buffers downcase function arguments depending on the font in use
 (if it supports italics?).
Changing a buffer's contents based on the font is use is not appropriate
since we have multi-tty, the same buffer can be shown simultaneously in
an X11 frame and a tty frame, and the properties of the font used in the
X11 frame can be very different from the ones used in a tty frame.

So changing the buffer content _by_default_ is not a good idea.
AFAIK we do not do such a thing anywhere else in emacs.
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