From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Invisible colons in Emacs Info. Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:12:15 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306252012.h5PKCFQ16805@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200306251958.h5PJwor30121@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056574763 16639 80.91.224.249 (25 Jun 2003 20:59:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 22:59:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19VHMM-0004Jq-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:59:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19VHQY-0001We-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:03:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VHLv-0007Ua-B1 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VGzZ-0002J9-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:35:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VGkK-0006zu-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VGcX-0004mL-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) h5PKBtoc004544; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:11:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h5PKCFQ16805; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:12:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: karl@freefriends.org In-reply-to: <200306251958.h5PJwor30121@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) Original-cc: monnier+inbox@cs.yale.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15252 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15252 Karl Berry wrote: blame me if you disagree) very much want to support entries like: * menu:entry: entry. description. To what end? I mean, what are the real examples that are hoped to be supported? This is new Info syntax, as far as I know. If makeinfo doesn't complain about it, it probably should. I don't understand even this skeletal example. Surely the point here is not to repeat the node name `entry', that wouldn't be useful. The concrete names are irrelevant: * text1:text2: text3. text4. >>From info.el: ;; Note that nowadays we expect info files to be made using makeinfo. ;; In particular we make these assumptions: ;; - a menu item MAY contain colons but not colon-space ": " ;; - a menu item ending with ": " (but not ":: ") is an index entry ;; - a node name MAY NOT contain a colon ;; This distinction is to support indexing of computer programming ;; language terms that may contain ":" but not ": ". This text clearly wants to support menu items like: * text1:text2: text3. text4. (Unless I misunderstood, sorry for the confusion in that case.) I thought I understood from previous messages that you "agreed to disagree" with people who held the views expressed above. (Or am I completely misunderstanding things?) Sincerely, Luc.