From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: cannot find :enable in Elispmanualindex] Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180906228 20529 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2007 21:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 23:30:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuxeW-00085G-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuxeW-0007Qs-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuxcA-0000RX-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Huxc9-0000R8-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Huxc9-0000R4-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Huxc9-0000mc-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Huxbp-00063F-Fz; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:33 -0400 In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72150 Archived-At: General HTML allows some things that are non-XML, purportedly to make coding (typing) it easier or quicker for humans. For example, you can use

without a corresponding closing tag

. That is like allowing a Lisp-like language to drop `)' in some situations, for "coding convenience". We could make Texinfo always generate the closing construct when it generates HTML.