From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: doc for locate-file - unclear, typos
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:55:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001201c86b34$24fd7180$a350908d@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <umyqaqiz0.fsf@gnu.org>
> > The Elisp manual also has some typos: It has several cross refs that
> > are followed by periods, all within parentheses in the middle of
> > sentences.
>
> These are not typos: an xref in parens (a.k.a. pxref) is followed by a
> period in Info if the source Texinfo specified a second argument for
> that pxref.
>
> > And one of these is split over two lines, with the period following
> > the newline.
>
> That's because Emacs tries to remove part of the pxref when it
> displays it. It's a (mis)feature, not a bug.
>
> Thanks for reporting this, nonetheless.
I was afraid this might be the case. Too bad. Looks worse than if the entire
source text were present, IMO. But no biggee.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-09 5:47 doc for locate-file - unclear, typos Drew Adams
2008-02-09 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-09 15:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-02-09 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-09 19:12 ` Drew Adams
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