From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs Subject: Re: Double hyphens in variable names. Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:14:28 +0200 Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310021318.h92DIWW05772@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200310021600.h92G0hI07627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065112109 8875 80.91.224.253 (2 Oct 2003 16:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 18:28:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A56JW-00006Y-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:28:26 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A56JW-0006oc-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:28:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A569S-0008Jk-K1 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A566k-0007nn-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A566C-0007cj-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.16.191.8] (helo=hera.cwi.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A566B-0007cH-Ca; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from occarina.pna.cwi.nl (occarina.pna.cwi.nl [192.16.184.200]) by hera.cwi.nl with ESMTP id h92GETal029383 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:14:29 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: (from lute@localhost) by occarina.pna.cwi.nl (8.12.8/8.12.5) id h92GESqU005814; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:14:28 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: occarina.pna.cwi.nl: lute set sender to Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl using -f Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200310021600.h92G0hI07627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:00:43 -0500 (CDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 34 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16880 gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:1204 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16880 Luc Teirlinck writes: > Still, even if it had worked, wouldn't it be best that the @defvr > macro treats multiple hyphens like @code does? > > Maybe, but what about > > @defvar imenu@verb{|--|}index-alist > > I had my suspicions about using space, even though it would be OK > according to the Texinfo manual, because LaTeX does _not_ allow space. Identical results: ! Undefined control sequence. \tabeightspaces ->\catcode `\^^I=\active \def ^^I {\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ } \setupverb ...catcode `\`=\active \tabeightspaces \obeylines \uncatcodespeci... \verb ->\begingroup \setupverb \doverb imenu\verb {|--|}index-alist \code #1->#1 \dosubind ...e \toks 0}\xdef \indexsorttmp {\temp }}\edef \temp {\write \csn... ... l.1850 @defvar imenu@verb{|--|}index-alist Lute.