From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34372: 27.0.50; Quoting problem in (elisp) Documentation Tips Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:51:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83pns3qyga.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mun7ttgw.fsf@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="3554"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 34372-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 18:52:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1grnqm-0000n0-7K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:52:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grnql-0008KA-8J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:52:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grnqG-00088r-28 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grnqF-0007nx-64 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grnqF-0007ni-3L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1grnqE-000611-QS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:52:02 -0500 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 34372 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Mail-Followup-To: 34372@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net Original-Received: via spool by 34372-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D34372.154956190223091 (code D ref 34372); Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34372-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Feb 2019 17:51:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38610 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1grnpt-00060M-UI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41541) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1grnpp-000607-Cc for 34372-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grnpk-0007XN-4a; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:51:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2879 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1grnpi-0008WF-1O; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:51:32 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mun7ttgw.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:10:39 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:155236 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:10:39 +0100 > > Prompted by the current thread "Quoting t and nil in docstrings" on > emacs-devel, I noticed a display problem in the Info node (elisp) > Documentation Tips, line 99, in the following sequence of characters: > > ‘CODE can be ‘lambda’, nil, or t’ > > The sequence > > CODE can be ‘lambda > > is displayed with Info-quoted face, all the other characters with the > default face. I supposed this is a texinfo (or makeinfo) bug triggered > by the nested quoting in the display (in the texinfo source the above > sequence of characters is enclosed in @samp{}, except for the uttermost > quote signs, which are only in the Info display). In lieu of a fix for > this bug I see two workarounds for the Emacs tips.texi file: (a) use the > "older single-quoting convention", i.e. `lambda', which is also used in > other examples in this very node; (b) use the @example environment > instead of @samp, which does not add the outer quotes and displays the > entire sequence in the default face (but then this example would look > different from the other examples in this node that use the "older > single-quoting convention", so maybe both (a) and (b), or change the > quoting in the other examples). I haven't tried to check whether there > are other instances of this display issue in the Emacs doc. I used the @example method. Thanks.