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: Refilling overrides texinfo commands Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:58:08 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306252358.h5PNw8F17085@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200306251321.h5PDLjQ16340@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <5xznk5zmc8.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056588644 26781 80.91.224.249 (26 Jun 2003 00:50:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:50:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 26 02:50:42 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 19VKyI-0006xp-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:50:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19VL2Z-0003kS-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:55:07 +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 19VKuL-0004z4-Vj for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VKPc-0008H2-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VKOr-0008Ax-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VK9A-0005ch-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) h5PNvmoc006265; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:57:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h5PNw8F17085; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:58:08 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-reply-to: <5xznk5zmc8.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Original-cc: karl@freefriends.org 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:15259 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15259 Kim Storm wrote: Your example illustrates such a case, but I have been unable to find any actual examples in the existing texi files (I haven't looked at every @*, but I'd say it seems like a non-problem in practice). and: Emacs info does respect @* in general -- it is only in connection with note references that it may accidentally be undone. Yes, but we have to worry not just about present info files included with the Emacs distribution, but about future info files and about `Texinfo' as a language. It reduces the attractiveness of a language if one of its main readers respects its commands "most of the time" as opposed to "all of the time". If commands not working as specified does not even get considered a "bug", reliability is gone. Sincerely, Luc.