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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with info (emacs version)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:03:13 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m19NG7t-000IeIC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306030445.h534juk24570@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:45:56 -0500 (CDT))

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> noted the context:

	   (info)Help-M

	   which is used in the tutorial, *only* describes menus as
	   they appear in the standalone info, not as they appear in
	   the emacs version and the two are very different.

RMS asked:

   Would you please tell me the specific differences?  I scanned
   through that none and did not notice anything incorrect.

The surface expressions are different depending on the value of
Info-hide-note-references

Most likely you have Info-hide-note-references's value set to nil.
However, the default is to set Info-hide-note-references to t

    *If non-nil, hide the tag and section reference in *note and * menu items.
    Also replaces the "*note" text with "see".
    If value is non-nil but not t, the reference section is still shown.

When you do this, using

    Today's CVS snapshot, Tue, 2003 Jun  3  12:21 lisp UTC
    GNU Emacs 21.3.50.48 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
    started with

       /usr/local/bin/emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)'

then the menu in (info)Help-M looks like this.

    * Menu:

    * Foo                  A node you can visit for fun.
    * Bar                  We have made two ways to get to the same place.
    * Help-FOO             And yet another!


But when Info-hide-note-references is set to nil, as it was in the old
days by default, the menu looks like this:

    * Menu:

    * Foo:  Help-FOO.       A node you can visit for fun.
    * Bar:  Help-FOO.       We have made two ways to get to the same place.
    * Help-FOO::            And yet another!

I remember all this because I prefer the old format and remember when
I had to put (setq Info-hide-note-references nil) into my .emacs file.

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                         Rattlesnake Enterprises
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.teak.cc                             bob@rattlesnake.com

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-03 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-02  3:33 Problems with info (emacs version) Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-02  4:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-02  6:51   ` Kenichi Handa
2003-06-03  4:06   ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-03  4:18     ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-02 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-02 18:23   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03  4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-03  4:45   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03 18:03     ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2003-06-03 18:38       ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03  5:22   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03  5:58     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-03  6:07       ` Miles Bader
2003-06-03  6:35         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-03  6:46           ` Miles Bader
2003-06-03 19:15             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-03 19:25               ` Miles Bader
2003-06-03 19:46                 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-03 19:58                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03 20:05                     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-03 23:26                   ` Miles Bader
2003-06-03 13:49       ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03 14:56         ` David Kastrup
2003-06-03 16:23           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-03 16:24           ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05  0:08             ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-03 16:45           ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03 19:23         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-03 19:40           ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05  0:07         ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-03 14:07       ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03 18:11     ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-04  8:53     ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-04 18:05       ` Luc Teirlinck

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