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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Doc corrections to gdb.texinfo
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17880.2275.44474.18077@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <umz3cjdiv.fsf@gnu.org>

 > > The cross reference name `file' doesn't mean anything to me.
 > 
 > It refers to the fact that you specify a file, as the surrounding text
 > suggests.  Moreover, at least in the stand-alone Info reader, the
 > ``file'' thing causes it to look for the string "file" in the
 > referenced node and put point there, if found.  So it looks like in
 > this case, whoever added that ``file'' part, actually knew what they
 > were doing.

You're probably right.  I keep thinking I'm looking directly at info in Emacs
and forget that, for some reason, it puts own unique spin on things.

 > > In any case I think that the section name being linked to is
 > > clearer.
 > 
 > We can have them both: your change left the second argument of @pxref
 > empty.  How about leaving ``file'' in the second argument, and adding
 > your 3rd arg?

OK, I've done that and committed the changes.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-18  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-16  3:59 Nick Roberts
2007-02-17 10:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-17 21:33   ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-18  4:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-18  8:06       ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-02-18 20:18         ` Eli Zaretskii

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