From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Syntax of '.' and ':' in man-mode
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:07:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzangdnf.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ubqr3m359.fsf@gnu.org
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:57:38 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
>> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:05:27 +0200
>>
>> are there any reasons why '.' and ':' have word syntax in
>> man mode?
>
> Because some man pages have these characters in their names (I believe
> there's a comment to that effect in man.el), and man.el picks up the
> word around point to provide the cross-reference feature, whereby you
> can jump to the referenced man page.
>
> Why is that a problem?
Just that character movement in man buffers behaves
different from what i expected (I noticed it when i copied a
"symbol" from a man page to some C code with C-M-SPC M-w).
David
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2006-08-02 16:05 Syntax of '.' and ':' in man-mode David Hansen
2006-08-02 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 19:07 ` David Hansen [this message]
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