From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 42993@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42993: 26.3; [PATCH] Let Info bookmarks go to current, not recorded, version of manual
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:03:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <968fc41a-3d1b-4cb4-9c45-88c7be6e7b26@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac509cf4-a31e-4ca5-a05b-d4eb2ad7d638@default>
> Another consideration is using the same bookmarks
> across different systems (e.g. MS Windows and
> GNU/Linux), where the absolute locations, even
> for "official installations" are likely to differ.
>
> Requiring an Info bookmark to work only with its
> absolute file name is, I think, unnecessarily
> restrictive, even if it can also be useful (see
> above: it's a feature).
>
> But the point you make is certainly another
> argument supporting user control of the behavior
> (e.g. an option).
Figuring that this suggestion, like others, won't
be added to Emacs, I've added it to my `info+.el'.
(If you do ever decide to add this to Emacs then
let me know, as the code I use now is slightly
better than the patch in this thread.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-30 21:03 UTC|newest]
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2020-08-23 16:32 ` bug#42993: 26.3; [PATCH] Let Info bookmarks go to current, not recorded, version of manual Drew Adams
2020-08-30 21:03 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-05-13 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-23 6:07 Drew Adams
2020-08-23 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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