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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8652@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8652: 24.0.50; incorrect indentation in (elisp) Special Properties
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:22:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0E754F1E9A124004968E173A8BC6913E@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ipthglw0.fsf@gnu.org>

> > The reference sections, such as `--Variable:', should 
> > follow the same indentation throughout the manual.
> 
> Why?  What bad things happen if they don't?
> 
> > In (elisp) Special Properties, the two `--Variable:' sections are
> > indented too far; they should be indented to only column 1, as in
> > the rest of the manual.
> 
> That's because they are pertinent to the `point-entered' and
> `point-left' properties, and so are sub-items of their parent item.
> Having them indented as you suggest would make them stand out of the
> surrounding text, which IMO isn't right.

The description of `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' makes it clear what it pertains
to.  This is so regardless of the indentation.

The description of `show-help-function' does not, however.  It is not at all
clear - even with the extra indentation - what the scope of this variable's
effect is (the fact that it is somehow "pertinent [only] to the `point-entered'
and `point-left' properties").  The description suggests that it affects the
display of help strings _in general_.  And nothing in the description says what
it does, in particular, for properties `point-entered' and `point-left'.  Just
how is it pertinent only to them?

You will do whatever you want, of course. ;-)  Just letting you know.

This is the _only_ place in the manual where the indentation is different.






  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 15:21 bug#8652: 24.0.50; incorrect indentation in (elisp) Special Properties Drew Adams
2011-05-11 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-11 18:22   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-05-14  8:48     ` Eli Zaretskii

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