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Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"? |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Feb 2006 02:50:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden> 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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