From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: =?windows-1252?q?Re=3A_changes_on_=93info=94_function_in_emacs_2?= =?windows-1252?q?3?= Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <85fc0b81-d7cc-4a6d-94d2-a5a2b76ae6d1@x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com> References: <80e8da53-ef71-47fc-b7b5-73d817414605@d4g2000prc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249707568 14194 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2009 04:59:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 04:59:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 08 06:59:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MZe1Z-0006bJ-Hh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:59:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZe1Z-0008Fm-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:59:21 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 65 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249687882 31055 127.0.0.1 (7 Aug 2009 23:31:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 23:31:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171786 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:53:44 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66975 Archived-At: On Aug 4, 6:39 pm, "A.Politz" wrote: > On Aug 5, 1:26 am, Xah Lee wrote: > > > It still works with or without the space, but would like to read about > > this change. > > > thanks. > > > Xah > > * Added one space to the output of some info function, thought it > might look better. > > Now you've done it, feel free to merge this line with your NEWS file. > BTW > C-0 c > , even more news. > > -ap the change actually broke one of my elisp function. I have a command that when invoked, will turn the current line like (emacs)dired into (info "(emacs)dired") now it broke! lol. (yeah it can be fixed in few secs) But anyway, i did some testing, at least this extra space change is backward compatible. e.g. (info "(emacs)dired") (info "(emacs) dired") both works in emacs 22. However, i noticed another, more important issue. In emacs 22, there's this node: (info "(emacs)Transient Mark") but doesn't exit in emacs 23's manual. Shouldn't the manual nodes be persistant across versions, e.g. providing redirect when node changed? as a pratical matter, this means now i have to search all my tutorial that points to manual nodes and check if they still work. This applies to any publication on emacs that reference to the manual by node. this is a problem with python manual too... thinking about this, actually i don't know if there are any manual that: (1) provide a computable reference to the chapter/sections. (2) maintain this on different versions of the manual. However, since emacs does (1) already, it's easy to do (2) too. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84