From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: doc for locate-file - unclear, typos Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:55:07 -0800 Message-ID: <001201c86b34$24fd7180$a350908d@us.oracle.com> References: <000901c86adf$4fa31c00$a350908d@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202572646 30725 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2008 15:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 16:57:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JNs5I-0005Hq-KC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:57:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNs4p-0004wV-9T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:57:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNs4k-0004wQ-Cv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNs4h-0004wA-ST for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNs4h-0004w7-Od for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNs4e-0006HG-1c; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m19Fuajf013647; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:56:51 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m19FqMPX030974; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:56:25 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3567838421202572487; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:54:47 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.80.163) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:54:47 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: Thread-Index: AchrLBqnYfN7C6vWTrG1f3dGiKOOlQAB+mGA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17514 Archived-At: > > The Elisp manual also has some typos: It has several cross refs that > > are followed by periods, all within parentheses in the middle of > > sentences. > > These are not typos: an xref in parens (a.k.a. pxref) is followed by a > period in Info if the source Texinfo specified a second argument for > that pxref. > > > And one of these is split over two lines, with the period following > > the newline. > > That's because Emacs tries to remove part of the pxref when it > displays it. It's a (mis)feature, not a bug. > > Thanks for reporting this, nonetheless. I was afraid this might be the case. Too bad. Looks worse than if the entire source text were present, IMO. But no biggee.