Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?

Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?

[Lennart Borgman]

I believe making HOME a link in the node above would be very good for 
beginners.

Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:04:19 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> 
> I believe making HOME a link in the node above would be very good for 
> beginners.

Done.

Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    >> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:04:19 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman
    >> <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
    >>
    >> I believe making HOME a link in the node above would be very
    >> good for beginners.

    Eli> Done.

I think you should use @xref instead of @pxref; it currently renders
as

    Normally Emacs uses the environment variable `HOME' (*note HOME:
    General Variables.) to find `.emacs'; that's what `~' means in a file

Note the period inside the parentheses.  I think @xref will suppress that.

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Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?

[Andreas Schwab]

Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:

> I think you should use @xref instead of @pxref;

@pxref is the correct markup for use in parentheses (that's what 'p' in
pxref stands for).

> it currently renders as
>
>     Normally Emacs uses the environment variable `HOME' (*note HOME:
>     General Variables.) to find `.emacs'; that's what `~' means in a file
>
> Note the period inside the parentheses.

That's a feature, not a bug.  The period tells the info parser where the
node name ends.

> I think @xref will suppress that.

@xref is supposed to start a sentence and be followed by a punctuation
mark, that's why it's not rendered with a trailing period.

Andreas.

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