From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:56:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200510072356.j97NuCM17331@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200510072121.j97LLI217457@f7.net> <874q7tgdh9.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128729596 1868 80.91.229.2 (7 Oct 2005 23:59:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 23:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 01:59:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EO25x-0001aJ-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:57:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EO25x-00067V-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EO25F-000661-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EO25E-000657-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EO25D-00064z-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EO25E-0004Uy-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j97Nuqp2029885; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:56:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j97NuCM17331; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:56:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: juri@jurta.org In-reply-to: <874q7tgdh9.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:47:54 +0300) 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:43669 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: I want to ask you one question: could you confirm that all title lines produced by makeinfo have the same lengths with their succeeding underlines (i.e. lines with characters `*', `=', `-' and `.')? If so, then I think it is safe to fix that in a way of comparing their lengths before highlighting. That is _still_ a very unreliable heuristic. There is no reason why a line followed by a line of equal length consisting of `*',`=',`-' or `.' should be a title line. These characters could, for instance, be part of an ASCII picture surrounding text. There are plenty of other possibilities. A line of these characters is *not* markup. Why not get rid of such flawed heuristics and simply underline titles the way they are underlined in the .info files, as the standalone Info reader does? This makes it also easier to see the nesting depth of the node. Why try to be tricky for no other reason than to be tricky? I personally have the line: (add-hook 'Info-mode-hook (lambda () (setq buffer-invisibility-spec nil))) in my .emacs to get rid of all this abuse of the invisibility property in info.el. Sincerely, Luc.