Re: MH-E manual update

[Luc Teirlinck]

Bill Wohler wrote:

   Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> wrote:

   >                But if you then refer to Alphabetical outside of the
   > @example, things get subtle.

   Right, hence my suggestion just to use @code always. To avoid the
   subtleties.

@code is meant for code.  The strings in the defcustom are code and
text in a Custom buffer or menu is not.  If you just look at
"Alphabetical", there does not seem to be too much of a difference.
But your defcustom could contain, say,

   :tag "\\1\\"

In that case, the code in the defcustom gets referred to as
@code{"\\1\\"} and what appears in the menu is @samp{\1\}.
The first is the string as it needs to be written in a program,
the second the actual string as it appears in the menu and the two are
not the same.

Sincerely,

Luc.