From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:02:22 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9743-Thu30Jan2003220221+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <200301292039.OAA26000@moose.dms.auburn.edu> <84n0lj821a.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043957376 31168 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 20:09:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18eKwE-0007iD-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:05:30 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18eL22-0006hg-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:11:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eKxS-0002jg-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:06:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eKwY-0001dE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eKwL-0001GF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from thor.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eKvk-0000nu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky ([80.230.235.10]) by thor.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id ATC86963; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:04:46 +0200 (IST) Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <84n0lj821a.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de) 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:11230 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11230 > From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) > Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:39:13 +0100 > > First of all, if point is on a menu line, then choose that menu > item. That much we all agree on. Doesn't Emacs do that now? I thought it did. > Further, if point is on a line starting with whitespace and > containing some non-whitespace text, this could be a continuation > line for a menu line. I think this should be removed and instead Emacs should not go anywhere in those cases. Several examples in this thread show how such ad-hoc algorithms can fail miserably. Can you explain why do you think this behavior is better than what the stand-alone reader does?