From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Syntax of '.' and ':' in man-mode Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:07:16 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87mzangdnf.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> References: <87r6zzgm2g.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154545889 5710 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 19:11:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 21:11:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8M7K-0006p7-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:10:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8M7J-00049B-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8M78-00048c-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8M76-00047p-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8M75-00047g-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:10:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G8MAG-0000aM-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G8M6V-0006aw-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from e178049212.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.49.212]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178049212.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178049212.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XcvsOwpkE0XEcxcH6ZywDER3h+s= 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:58013 Archived-At: On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:57:38 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: David Hansen >> 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