From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 07:50:59 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1858-Sun07Dec2003075059+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200312070120.hB71KHb05115@f7.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070776394 18695 80.91.224.253 (7 Dec 2003 05:53:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 05:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 06:53:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASrqx-0002dd-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 06:53:11 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASrqx-0001Am-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 06:53:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ASsns-0001Tb-Ut for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASsno-0001R7-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASsnF-00012v-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:53:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ASsnE-00012b-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:53:25 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-196-203.inter.net.il [80.230.196.203]) by legolas.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.8-GR) with ESMTP id AWZ77367; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 07:51:56 +0200 (IST) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200312070120.hB71KHb05115@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18498 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18498 > Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 20:20:17 -0500 > From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) > > I agree. From this discussion, the answer forming in my mind is "when > you have a long node, and want to go to an exact location within it". > > And I would also say "consider splitting such a long node into several > subnodes" -- but I realize there are cases where that is not desirable. A typical situation is in nodes that describe command-line arguments accepted by a program. These nodes are quite long and essentially present a large group of almost-unrelated short descriptions. Splitting such a node is not very desirable, since that would harm "info --usage". Perhaps we should specifically recommend use of anchors in such usage nodes.