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: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:31:44 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200307010031.h610Vid22765@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200307010003.h6103d623188@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057020616 25051 80.91.224.249 (1 Jul 2003 00:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 00:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 01 02:50:11 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 19X9LX-0006Vi-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2003 02:50:11 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19X9SE-0004gh-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2003 02:57:06 +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 19X9L9-0005tD-OS for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19X9Kg-0005p7-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19X9Ii-0004st-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19X93x-00078N-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:32:01 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) h610VoeQ004652; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:31:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h610Vid22765; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:31:44 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: karl@freefriends.org In-reply-to: <200307010003.h6103d623188@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) Original-cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@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:15331 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15331 Karl Berry wrote: 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. Yes, but I was quoting Stefan who seemed to be trying to implement 1-but-not-2. I don't like the idea of trying to allow subtopic names to be followed by : based on periods. If that's what you were saying. It was what I was mentioning as a theoretical possibility, because Stefan seemed to be trying to implement it. It was not something I was arguing for. It's simpler both to understand and to implement to just require : as a separator. Or :, I suppose. I agree, since 1-but-not-2 would be unnecessarily complex. Without a space or tab, things also _look_ bad when note references are not hidden. There does not seem to be any reason to desperately want to avoid the space in question. Sincerely, Luc.