From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Invisible colons in Emacs Info.
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:03:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307010003.h6103d623188@f7.net> (raw)
... situation for menu subtopic names is the following:
1. They can contain colons, but not colons followed by a space.
2. There must be at least one space separating the subtopic name and
the node name.
I think this is ok, because there are few manuals which lack a space
between a subtopic and node name. As I said, the only ones I could find
were a few of the xemacs subsidiary manuals. We should inform their
authors.
Some, like Karl, would prefer not to allow colons at all until a new
Well, I think the rule above is ok. The benefit, of allowing colons in
subtopic names, is worthwhile enough that I don't mind the additional
complexity, since the real fix is not on the horizon.
Stefan and Karl pointed out that condition 2 used not to be necessary
And condition 1 did not obtain; colons were not allowed.
If we want 1. but not 2. then things become much more complicated and
precise specs would need to be agreed upon.
1-but-not-2 requires the "real fix" or "better solution" or whatever you
want to call it, as far as I can tell. (Quoting syntax.)
Problem is that it still fails on:
* name1:foo:node. des:cription.
because it thinks the menu entry name is "name1:foo:node. des"
and the node name is "cription". I'm sure we can tune the disambiguation
by saying that menu entries can have `:' but cannot have `.' after the `:'
or some other such heuristic.
Huh? According to the rule above, the above is invalid because it lacks
a space, right? It would have to be written as:
Name1:foo: node. des:description.
I don't like the idea of trying to allow subtopic names to be followed
by :<nonspace> based on periods. If that's what you were saying.
It's simpler both to understand and to implement to just require :<space>
as a separator. Or :<tab>, I suppose.
Ok?
k
next reply other threads:[~2003-07-01 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-01 0:03 Karl Berry [this message]
2003-07-01 0:31 ` Invisible colons in Emacs Info Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-04 0:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-07-05 3:14 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-05 18:28 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-07-06 13:49 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-06 13:03 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-07-06 18:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 18:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 19:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 23:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-05 13:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-06 23:56 Karl Berry
2003-07-07 0:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 22:43 Karl Berry
2003-07-06 22:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 23:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-07-06 23:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-07 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-07-08 2:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 21:04 Karl Berry
2003-06-25 20:00 Karl Berry
2003-06-25 19:58 Karl Berry
2003-06-25 20:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 2:34 Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 2:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-25 18:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-25 18:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 19:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 19:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 19:25 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 19:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-25 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-25 21:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-28 0:36 ` Luc Teirlinck
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