From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Invisible colons in Emacs Info. Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:49:15 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306251849.h5PInF016695@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200306250234.h5P2YNY15932@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200306251752.h5PHqcTi006187@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056568420 16194 80.91.224.249 (25 Jun 2003 19:13:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 21:13:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19VFi1-0004CX-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:13:33 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19VFmB-0000TR-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:17:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VFZa-0003wO-Ny for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:04:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VFVQ-0002Zg-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VFSV-0001bC-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VFKL-00082p-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) h5PImtoc004071; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:48:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h5PInF016695; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:49:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: monnier+inbox@cs.yale.edu In-reply-to: <200306251752.h5PHqcTi006187@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+inbox@cs.yale.edu) Original-cc: karl@freefriends.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15242 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15242 Stefan Monnier wrote: In nornal menus, things look like: * menu:entry. description. whereas in indices, the description is missing and things look like: * menu: entry. note the clever use of he fact that whitespaces between `menu:' and `entry.' is ignored. But the question is: how does that difference have anything to do with whether or not colons should be hidden? On another note, the whitespace is ignored by makeinfo and the stand-alone Info reader, but not by Emacs. In Emacs * menu: entry description. will visit entry, but * menu:entry. description. will yield an error. It does not matter if one replaces "menu" by some less ambiguous name. The stand-alone Info visits entry. Emacs insists on the space after the colon, because it wants to support colons in the middle of menu subtopic names. Sincerely, Luc.