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bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Poin
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:25:49 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:23:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> For `i home TAB' you see these candidates:
> HOME
> home directory shorthand
>
> In my setup I see also these two, but for some reason I don't see them
> with `emacs -Q':
> HOME directory on MS-Windows
> HOME directory under MS-DOS
I see all 4 of them in "emacs -Q". Not sure why you don't; perhaps
because your build is very old (but I doubt that). Do you have
INFOPATH set in the environment, perhaps?
> In any case, those with the uppercase HOME should presumably not point
> to node `Moving Point' (and, in particular, to the key `<home>'. That
> is wrong. Presumably, `HOME' should take you to some information about
> environment variable `HOME' or at least about the home directory.
I disagree. In general, index searches are deliberately
case-insensitive. In this particular case, you might assume that
everyone knows the key is called <home>, but a seasonal reader of the
manual does not necessarily know that; he could, for example, take
inspiration from SPC, RET, TAB, etc. We shouldn't fail those users,
IMO.
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Drew Adams, 2015/03/13
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Drew Adams, 2015/03/14
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/03/14
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Drew Adams, 2015/03/14
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/03/14
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Drew Adams, 2015/03/14
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/03/14
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Drew Adams, 2015/03/14
- bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong, Drew Adams, 2015/03/14