Re: info

[Kai Großjohann]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:39:13 +0100
>> 
>> First of all, if point is on a menu line, then choose that menu
>> item.  That much we all agree on.
>
> Doesn't Emacs do that now?  I thought it did.

Oh, it does.  Sorry for that misinformation.

>> Further, if point is on a line starting with whitespace and
>> containing some non-whitespace text, this could be a continuation
>> line for a menu line.
>
> I think this should be removed and instead Emacs should not go
> anywhere in those cases.  Several examples in this thread show how
> such ad-hoc algorithms can fail miserably.  Can you explain why do you
> think this behavior is better than what the stand-alone reader does?

OK, the standalone behavior is also fine.  (The error message could
be improved, perhaps, but that's a minor thing.)

I agree with the previous statement that an error is better than the
wrong target.
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