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Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?
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Kevin Rodgers |
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Re: Red `*' in *info* menus? |
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Tue, 25 May 2004 17:43:33 -0600 |
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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.
> 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.
--
Kevin Rodgers
- Red `*' in *info* menus?, J Krugman, 2004/05/25
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?,
Kevin Rodgers <=
- Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?, J Krugman, 2004/05/25
- 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