From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23798: 25.0.90; Underscore for emphasis in Info? Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 19:34:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvmh87dl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<>> <<<8337o9aogg.fsf@gnu.org>>> <<3129ea6b-50bf-48e6-b3d0-b180828dfc5c@default>> <<83wpll8bbi.fsf@gnu.org>> <7648aec5-f939-4da3-8d4c-9ea03799c0db@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466354196 2287 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2016 16:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 16:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23798@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 19 18:36:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfhp-0001U2-5R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:36:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfho-0007F2-9D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfhf-0007E3-9i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfha-00045W-Rq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34250) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfha-00045S-OL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfha-000488-Gb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 16:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23798 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23798-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23798.146635410715809 (code B ref 23798); Sun, 19 Jun 2016 16:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23798) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jun 2016 16:35:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46587 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfgh-00046v-Fu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34858) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfgg-00046X-HZ for 23798@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfgW-0003sw-VZ for 23798@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfgW-0003ss-SX; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2697 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bEfgU-00043h-G1; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:34:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <7648aec5-f939-4da3-8d4c-9ea03799c0db@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 19 Jun 2016 09:23:59 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119781 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 09:23:59 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 23798@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > Is there any other kind of emphasis that is used? > > > > Yes, there's @strong, rendered as *foo*. > > I see. I suspected that, so I searched for it (in the Emacs and > Elisp manuals). I did not find any matches that would seem to > reflect that. You have a few. Here's one, from "Action Arguments" in the Emacs manual: *Warning:* If previous command-line arguments have visited files, the current directory is the directory of the last file visited. > It is unfortunate that Info "renders" what is clear markup, e.g. > @strong, by something that is not markup and not clearly > notational, and so is easily confused with ordinary text. Info was designed to display on the dumbest text terminals out there. > Maybe you have a better suggestion? I hope others will chime in. > If you decide to do nothing wrt this enhancement request, perhaps > you would at least consider to have the Info help, for Info that > is displayed by Emacs, include a "notation" section that tells > users that "_..._" is emphasis and "*...*" is strong emphasis. > We already have node (info) `Help-Inv', which is along the same > lines, but the notation is not described anywhere, AFAICT. This is documented in the Texinfo manual.