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Re: Why does texinfo-make-menu append trailing whitespace?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Why does texinfo-make-menu append trailing whitespace? |
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Wed, 14 May 2003 08:02:35 +0000 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote on Wed, 14 May 2003 05:30:38 +0300:
>> From: Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 12:56:54 +0000
>> I'm updating a file.texi using Texinfo-mode. When I do C-c C-u <ret> to
>> update a menu, the resulting menu has trailing spaces after each item.
>> There wasn't any such trailing spaces beforehand.
> Define ``beforehand''. Are you saying that a previous version of
> Emacs (which one?) didn't insert those spaces?
Sorry. I meant the menu didn't have the trailing spaces before I did C-c
C-u <ret>.
>> I don't like this. Is it a bug, or is there some reason for this
>> trailing space?
> It's a kind of a feature: Emacs assumes that you will wish to add
> some text to each menu item, and inserts those spaces to align the
> beginning of that text.
Ah! Right! I understand now.
Perhaps Texinfo mode should put the spaces in when it appends the text,
rather than when it creates the menu item.
> You can use delete-trailing-whitespace to remove easily it if you
> don't want it.
Indeed. That is what I will do.
Many thanks, Eli.
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