Re: texinfo-6.5.92 pretest

[Robert Pluim]

Gavin Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2/4/19, Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This reminded me I have a patch Iʼve been meaning to submit to
>> you. Thereʼs an addition to texinfo.el that Iʼm planning to submit to
>> emacs-27 that should probably be documented in texinfo. The doc change
>> currently looks like this:
>
> Please let us know when your feature has been accepted into Emacs.

Iʼve just committed it to emacs as 6ed9d0057d , it will appear in 27.1
when that is released.

The texinfo patch is below. I have a copyright assigment in place
for emacs, I can do one for texinfo as well (or place the change in
the public domain).

Index: doc/texinfo.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/texinfo.texi    (revision 8006)
+++ doc/texinfo.texi    (working copy)
@@ -21901,6 +21901,18 @@
 Insert @code{@@noindent} and put the
 cursor at the beginning of the next line.
 
address@hidden  C-c C-c r
address@hidden M-x texinfo-insert-dwim-@@ref
address@hidden texinfo-insert-dwim-@@ref
+This function and binding were added in Emacs 27.1
+Inserts one of @code{@@address@hidden@}}, @code{@@address@hidden@}}, or
address@hidden@@address@hidden@}} based on the text around point; calling it 
near an
+unclosed preceding open parenthesis results in @code{@@address@hidden@}}, at
+the beginning of a sentence or at @code{(point-min)} yields
address@hidden@@address@hidden@}}, any other location (including inside a 
word), will
+result in @code{@@address@hidden@}}.  A numeric argument says how many words
+the braces should surround.  Puts the cursor between the braces.
+
 @item  C-c C-c s
 @itemx M-x texinfo-insert-@@samp
 @findex texinfo-insert-@@samp