From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:14:30 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306041714.h54HEURm026453@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200306041404.h54E4SO30552@f7.net> <200306041501.h54F1Tq3025762@rum.cs.yale.edu> <2110-Wed04Jun2003182418+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <200306041531.h54FV9Qs025989@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200306041655.h54Gt6C26152@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054747642 1982 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 17:27:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:27:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 19:27:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Nc2g-0000Ve-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:27:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NcKM-0005kD-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:45:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Nc4G-000650-BR for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NbrV-0001UC-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NbqY-0001Dq-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NbqT-00019r-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h54HEZ0i026455; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h54HEURm026453; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:14:30 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck Original-cc: karl@freefriends.org Original-cc: eliz@elta.co.il Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14700 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I never claimed it was true, if you read what I wrote. > I'm genuinely asking how important it is. I'm by far the most > sophisticated user of `info' among the few people I know around here > and I never use `g' other than to visit a particular info *file* > (which is why I added completion inside the (...) ;-). > > The `g' command, in combination with the `c' command, is, in as far as > I know, the most effective way of referring somebody else to a > particular node. 1 - This does not rely on having the node names visible in the menus and xrefs, but only in the the "Node:" on the first line of the node. 2 - (info "") is a better way than using `g' since the `somebody' can just click on it (or hit C-x C-e). Stefan