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Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?
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J Krugman |
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Re: Red `*' in *info* menus? |
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Wed, 26 May 2004 01:42:58 +0000 (UTC) |
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In <40B3DA25.80202@yahoo.com> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>J Krugman wrote:
> > In the menus that come up when I do "C-h i", each available choice
> > (subtopic) starts with an asterisk. Most of these asterisks are
> > rendered in the usual foreground color, but a few of them are
> > rendered in red. What do the red asterisks mean?
> From the Expert node of the Info manual:
>| If your display supports multiple fonts, and you are using Emacs'
>| Info mode to read Info files, the `*' for the fifth menu item stands
>| out, either in color or in some other attribute, such as underline, and
>| so is the `*' for the ninth item; this makes it easy to see at a glance
>| which number to use for an item.
Every multiple of 5 would make sense, but the 5-th and the 9-th???
That's so *weird* !!! (Or there's a big-time Beethoven fan behind
this code.)
> > And, more importantly, how could I have answered this question for
> > myself using the online info system? I searched for "[^a-z]red[^a-z]"
> > the "* Info: (emacs-21/info)" subtree but nothing came up.
>Here's what I did: `M-x list-faces-display', then scan the *Faces*
>buffer for Info faces that are red; then click on info-menu-5 to see its
>doc string:
>| Face for the fifth and nineth `*' in an Info menu.
That's a good trick to know. Thanks!
jill
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- Red `*' in *info* menus?, J Krugman, 2004/05/25
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/05/25
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?,
J Krugman <=
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, Björn Lindström, 2004/05/25
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, Ryan Bowman, 2004/05/26
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, nick, 2004/05/26
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, Michael Schierl, 2004/05/27
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/05/28
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/26