From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:48:17 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301292039.OAA26000@moose.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043905681 30276 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 05:48:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 05:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18e7YL-0007s4-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 06:47:57 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18e7dq-000716-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 06:53:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18e7Zr-0002vo-0A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18e7Za-0002ut-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18e7ZZ-0002uO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18e7ZY-0002ty-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA00933; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:48:17 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200301292039.OAA26000@moose.dms.auburn.edu> Original-cc: karl@freefriends.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11214 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11214 On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Luc Teirlinck wrote: > * Acknowledgments:: Major contributors to GNU Emacs. > > Indexes (nodes containing large menus) > * Key Index:: An item for each standard Emacs key sequence. > > Which menu item would you like Info to select if point is on > "Indexes", and how should Info tell this case from the one that > started this thread? > > Sorry, I forgot to answer this question. The default chosen by m is > `Acknowledgments'. This is arbitrary but predictable. Everything > between two leading *'s is the previous *'s territory. I believe this arebitrary predictability is not very useful, except in those cases where the text between the two *'s is short. As other examples in this thread show, sometimes this approach is simply wrong.