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* Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?
@ 2006-01-30 23:04 Lennart Borgman
  2006-02-03 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2006-01-30 23:04 UTC (permalink / raw)


I believe making HOME a link in the node above would be very good for 
beginners.

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* Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?
  2006-01-30 23:04 Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"? Lennart Borgman
@ 2006-02-03 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2006-02-03 20:59   ` Eric Hanchrow
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2006-02-03 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:04:19 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> 
> I believe making HOME a link in the node above would be very good for 
> beginners.

Done.

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* Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?
  2006-02-03 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2006-02-03 20:59   ` Eric Hanchrow
  2006-02-04  1:50     ` Andreas Schwab
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric Hanchrow @ 2006-02-03 20:59 UTC (permalink / raw)


>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    >> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:04:19 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman
    >> <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
    >>
    >> I believe making HOME a link in the node above would be very
    >> good for beginners.

    Eli> Done.

I think you should use @xref instead of @pxref; it currently renders
as

    Normally Emacs uses the environment variable `HOME' (*note HOME:
    General Variables.) to find `.emacs'; that's what `~' means in a file

Note the period inside the parentheses.  I think @xref will suppress that.

-- 
[Dijkstra's] great strength is that he is uncompromising.  It
would make him physically ill to think of programming in C++.
        -- Donald E. Knuth

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* Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?
  2006-02-03 20:59   ` Eric Hanchrow
@ 2006-02-04  1:50     ` Andreas Schwab
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2006-02-04  1:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:

> I think you should use @xref instead of @pxref;

@pxref is the correct markup for use in parentheses (that's what 'p' in
pxref stands for).

> it currently renders as
>
>     Normally Emacs uses the environment variable `HOME' (*note HOME:
>     General Variables.) to find `.emacs'; that's what `~' means in a file
>
> Note the period inside the parentheses.

That's a feature, not a bug.  The period tells the info parser where the
node name ends.

> I think @xref will suppress that.

@xref is supposed to start a sentence and be followed by a punctuation
mark, that's why it's not rendered with a trailing period.

Andreas.

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