From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53078 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Eric Knauel] spam.el and spamoracle Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:08:07 +0200 Organization: http://purl.org/harder/ Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4nel2tecrk.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nwufv0y8c.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055200102 9305 80.91.224.249 (9 Jun 2003 23:08:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 23:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1622@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 10 01:08:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19PVkS-0002Pw-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:08:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19PVmc-0005Wg-00; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19PVmU-0005Wa-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 45206 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2003 23:10:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 45201 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 23:10:26 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2003 23:10:26 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19PW4C-0003y5-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:28:44 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0xc3d7e0e4.esnxr4.ras.tele.dk Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1055201324 15256 195.215.224.228 (9 Jun 2003 23:28:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 2003 23:28:44 GMT X-Face: ^RrvqCr7c,P$zTR:QED"@h9+BTm-"fjZJJ-3=OU7.)i/K]<.J88}s>'Z_$r; writes: > By the way (for Gnus Texinfo users), should we use @var in Texinfo? Yes. > It's in use here and there, but @code seems much more prevalent. Yeah, but @code and @var isn't used for the same thing. @var does not mean variable -- i.e. a Lisp symbol that's used as a variable. @var is only used for metasyntactic variables. From the Texinfo manual: ,---- | Use the `@var' command to indicate metasyntactic variables. A | "metasyntactic variable" is something that stands for another piece of | text. For example, you should use a metasyntactic variable in the | documentation of a function to describe the arguments that are passed | to that function. | | Do not use `@var' for the names of particular variables in | programming languages. These are specific names from a program, so | `@code' is correct for them (see *note code::). For example, the | Emacs Lisp variable `texinfo-tex-command' is not a metasyntactic | variable; it is properly formatted using `@code'. | | Do not use `@var' for environment variables either; `@env' is correct | for them (see the next section). | | The effect of `@var' in the Info file is to change the case of the | argument to all upper case. In the printed manual and HTML output, the | argument is printed in slanted type. | | For example, | | To delete file @var{filename}, | type @samp{rm @var{filename}}. | | produces | | To delete file FILENAME, type `rm FILENAME'. `----