> From: "Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 00:17:14 -0800 > > emacs -q > C-h i > > In the left column are two headings: "* Menu" and "Emacs". It looks a > bit odd that Menu is preceded by an asterisk. Is this just a vestige > of older versions of Emacs? Is it perhaps still needed for emacs on a > terminal (no window mgr)? In any case, it looks odd in normal Emacs.
"* Menu:" is the string an Info reader looks for when it searches nodes for menus. See Info-insert-dir, Info-up, Info-scroll-down, Info-complete-menu-item, and others. It is what tells the Info reader that there's a menu in the node. It also tells the user that the following lines are a menu, something that is not immediately evident from the appearance. > The Info manual says that "* Menu" determines a menu, so the Info > manual will need to be updated if the appearance is updated. This is > the same as what happened to "*Note": that text is now hidden, so the > Info manual was updated so it now reads without mention of "*Note". I think the trouble we are having due to the change in "*Note" appearance is bad enough to not introduce more of that kind by hiding "* Menu:". Especially since the original motivation: to have a cross-reference look more like what users are used to these days, is not relevant to the "* Menu:" line. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
