From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"? Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 02:50:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <43DE9B73.8010303@student.lu.se> <87psm4gnul.fsf@blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139019142 24715 80.91.229.2 (4 Feb 2006 02:12:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 02:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 04 03:12:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5CuL-0002tp-KY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:12:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5CxX-0000KF-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:15:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F5CcW-0003sK-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F5CcT-0003qv-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:53:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5CcS-0003qg-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:53:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F5CbY-0007GA-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:52:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919BD1D7CA; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 02:50:20 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eric Hanchrow X-Yow: If elected, Zippy pledges to each and every American a 55-year-old houseboy... In-Reply-To: <87psm4gnul.fsf@blarg.net> (Eric Hanchrow's message of "Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:59:46 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:49998 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow 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 fi= le > > 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."