Re: Info directory (dir): Emacs heading different from Menu heading

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> 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.