Subject: bug#798: Info-hide-note-references and filling

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:20:14 +0200

> emacs -Q
 > (info "(/path/to/your/build/info/emacs)Diary Customizing")
 >
 > Scroll down to paragraph four. With the default value of
 > Info-hide-note-references, the display looks poor:
 >
 >   recognizing a date.  Each date pattern is a list whose elements may be
 >   regular expressions (see Regular Expressions(elisp)
 >   .) or the symbols `month', `day', `year', `monthname', and
 >
 > Note the big gap after '(elisp)', with an odd looking full-stop at the
 > start of the next line.
 >
 > With Info-hide-note-references nil, the original text shows why this
 > happened:
 >
 >   recognizing a date.  Each date pattern is a list whose elements may be
 >   regular expressions (*note Regular Expressions: (elisp)Regular
 >   Expressions.) or the symbols `month', `day', `year', `monthname', and
 >
 >
 > It would be nice if the Info-hide-note-references mechanism could do
 > some re-filling.

That's what the option `Info-refill-paragraphs' is for.

martin