From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38315: 26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for node User Input Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:29:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83zhgower0.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="221937"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 38315@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 08:31:01 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3PA-000vcC-Kq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:31:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47796 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3P9-0008EI-DC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:30:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3OI-0007m8-12 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3OH-0006B1-0n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:30:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3OG-0006Av-TI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3OE-00065O-6h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:30:04 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38315 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38315-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38315.157440775823321 (code B ref 38315); Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38315) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Nov 2019 07:29:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53658 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3NW-000644-Gz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56094) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3NU-00063s-Ac for 38315@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:29:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3NO-0005nu-J2; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2474 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3NM-0002CT-Hq; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:29:09 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:17:47 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:172194 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:17:47 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > There are index entries for the Alt key on MS Windows, but there is no > index entry for node `User Input', where it is mentioned in a general > context (not just MS Windows). Please add an index entry for this. What would that index entry index in that node? That node has no Windows-specific information or issues, AFAICT. > These are the current index entries containing "alt" that refer to an > Alt key: > > - vs M- (MS-Windows) > key (MS-Windows) > Alt key (MS-Windows) > Alt key invokes menu (Windows) > AltGr (MS-Windows) > M- vs - (MS-Windows) > > ns-alternate-modifier > ns-right-alternate-modifier > w32-alt-is-meta > w32-pass-alt-to-system > w32-recognize-altgr > > (I had to look for "meta" in the index to find the mention of the Alt > key in node `User Input'.) Please describe, step by step, what subject/topic did you look for, how did you look for it (i.e. what index entries you tried), and how did you eventually find it. Without the whole story, I'm afraid I cannot understand what exactly was missing in your use case and how best to fix that. Thanks.