From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:49:36 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200312061449.hB6Enaa16133@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070722310 28329 80.91.224.253 (6 Dec 2003 14:51:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 15:51:46 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 1ASdmc-00071c-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 15:51:46 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASdmc-0003Qr-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 15:51:46 +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 1ASejg-00074J-Ow for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:52:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASeiW-0006q5-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:51:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASehz-0006mL-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.61.216.22] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ASehy-0006mG-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id hB6Enaa16133; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:49:36 -0500 Original-To: juri@jurta.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:18460 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18460 Note that nodes `Building Lists' and `Creating Strings' are very large Perhaps they should be split up, then. But obviously that's a different issue. As for the general question of making index entries xrefable, as I said before, I am not sure. Although it would be useful in the cases you cite, I am not sure if it would be useful enough in general to automatically do it for every index entry. Most index entries (in most manuals) are long strings of human-readable text that it is not useful to xref. Also, the question of conflicts would arise. If there is both an index entry and a node with the same name, what to do? Or two index entries with the same name? The xref commands are not set up to handle this. Making them take a sixth argument or something does not sound all that appealing, although maybe it is the cleanest thing. So I don't think it is "easy". The easy thing to do is accept the feaure Texinfo already provides for subnode positioning: anchors. It is more work for the authors in one way, but on the other hand it actually works.