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REFERENCE. This is unhelpful and confusing. There is no explanation of it, and it is not formatted as if it were a syntax description or column headings for what follows (which would anyway be unnecessary). Furthermore, if it is purported to be a syntax description then it is anyway incorrect: the semicolon does not appear in any list entry, and there are sometimes lines comprising a DESCRIPTION that appear before the REFERENCE (which is a "see..."). Perhaps it is vestigial meta-information for the person who is writing the texinfo content. In any case, it should simply be removed. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-09-05 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt'