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: Re: doc for locate-file - unclear, typos Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:29:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <000901c86adf$4fa31c00$a350908d@us.oracle.com> <001201c86b34$24fd7180$a350908d@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202574575 5189 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2008 16:29:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 17:29:57 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 1JNsaH-0007nN-ML for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:29:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNsZo-00053l-JU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:29:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNsZk-000529-5o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:29:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNsZi-0004z7-CZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNsZi-0004yz-93 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNsZh-0004Kg-Ru for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-218-44.inter.net.il [83.130.218.44]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id KEC92700 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:28:50 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <001201c86b34$24fd7180$a350908d@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:17516 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: > Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:55:07 -0800 > > > > 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. You can have what you want by customizing Info-hide-note-references. Alternatively, try customizing Info-refill-paragraphs.