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 19:53:22 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200312070053.hB70rMa01342@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070758555 10731 80.91.224.253 (7 Dec 2003 00:55:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 00:55:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 01:55:52 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 1ASnDE-00046o-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:55:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASnDE-00052H-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:55:52 +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 1ASo9C-0005i9-Be for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:55:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASo8r-0005hG-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:55:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASo8L-0005Wb-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.61.216.22] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ASo8L-0005WX-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id hB70rMa01342; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 19:53:22 -0500 Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu 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:18484 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18484 Luc, thank you for the clear mail with examples. @xref{(elisp)Top}. @xref{(elisp)Top, Top}. Hmm. The documentation is not explicit about any assigned meaning for the second arg to an xref, beyond being the "name of the Info reference", which is to say, the thing before the first colon. http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Two-Arguments.html (and preceding and following nodes). I had always thought of it as an arbitrary string. the reference produced by `@xref{(elisp)Top, Top}.' leads to (experiment)Top in Emacs Info. Is this a bug? My opinion is yes, it is a bug. This very example shows it is a reasonable thing to do -- have references to Top nodes of different manuals within one node. In fact, I myself have written nodes that do that. Thanks, k