From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 50467@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50467: Could :properties have index entries in the elisp manual?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:54:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmGe=NG4Y3jLqyucTLVpe-fVz5g8bytvLTLX6SM+KSx7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k0jro9wm.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Please consider adding properties to the index of the elisp manual for
> > easy access.
>
> Which ones? all of them? There are a lot of them, and we sometimes
> have the same keyword used in different contexts to mean different
> things, so we'd need a lot of disambiguation text to make unique
> entries.
As a first approximation, only some of them.
(That's what I meant when I wrote: "Perhaps some properties are more
important to add than others, and perhaps others still would not even
make sense adding.")
> (And you mean keywords that start with a colon, not properties.
> Right?)
Yes, that was a thinko, sorry.
> That said, feel free to suggest additions to the indexing for the
> important keywords, we can always discuss them one by one.
That seems like a good approach here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-10 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-08 1:52 bug#50467: Could :properties have index entries in the elisp manual? Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08 5:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-08 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-08 15:55 ` bug#50467: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-10 6:54 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-10 7:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-10 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-25 14:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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