GNU bug report logs - #798
Info-hide-note-references and filling

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Message #8 received at 798 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: 798 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#798: Info-hide-note-references and filling
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

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