From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:51:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84isw6nyxx.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9743-Thu30Jan2003220221+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:02:22 +0200")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>> From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:39:13 +0100
>>
>> First of all, if point is on a menu line, then choose that menu
>> item. That much we all agree on.
>
> Doesn't Emacs do that now? I thought it did.
Oh, it does. Sorry for that misinformation.
>> Further, if point is on a line starting with whitespace and
>> containing some non-whitespace text, this could be a continuation
>> line for a menu line.
>
> I think this should be removed and instead Emacs should not go
> anywhere in those cases. Several examples in this thread show how
> such ad-hoc algorithms can fail miserably. Can you explain why do you
> think this behavior is better than what the stand-alone reader does?
OK, the standalone behavior is also fine. (The error message could
be improved, perhaps, but that's a minor thing.)
I agree with the previous statement that an error is better than the
wrong target.
--
Ambibibentists unite!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-30 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-29 1:33 info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-29 3:53 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-29 6:29 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-29 19:57 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-30 5:46 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-29 21:17 ` info Richard Stallman
2003-01-29 17:33 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-29 20:39 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-29 23:21 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-30 5:48 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-30 8:39 ` info Kai Großjohann
2003-01-30 15:11 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-30 16:30 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-30 20:02 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-30 20:51 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-01-30 22:37 ` info Robert J. Chassell
2003-01-31 1:51 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-31 13:05 ` info Robert J. Chassell
2003-01-31 20:22 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-01 1:22 ` info Robert J. Chassell
2003-01-29 21:17 ` info Richard Stallman
2003-01-30 0:31 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-30 1:43 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-30 2:03 ` info Luc Teirlinck
[not found] <84smvc2guf.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
2003-01-29 14:20 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-30 15:21 ` info Richard Stallman
2003-01-30 16:21 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-31 19:20 ` info Richard Stallman
2003-02-01 1:22 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-01 22:11 ` info Richard Stallman
2003-02-02 4:59 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-02 5:44 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-02 6:09 ` info Miles Bader
2003-02-03 14:40 ` info Stefan Monnier
2003-02-03 19:00 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-03 19:16 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-03 19:19 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-04 15:41 ` info Richard Stallman
2003-02-05 6:08 ` info Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-05 20:07 ` info Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-09 4:45 ` info Luc Teirlinck
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