From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:56:44 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200312100256.hBA2uiF24015@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <878ylrbbk4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312051426.hB5EQeZ11287@f7.net> <87ekvjuuj8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312051802.hB5I2EC04476@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200312052233.hB5MXsv07577@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87ptf2omam.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312070219.hB72Jfu10270@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200312070231.hB72Vgv10283@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87ekvgilfm.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4038-Sun07Dec2003203237+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200312071857.hB7Ivks11511@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200312090334.hB93YFS17651@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071025625 17836 80.91.224.253 (10 Dec 2003 03:07:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:07:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 04:07:01 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 1ATugn-0001cd-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:07:01 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATugn-0006RE-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:07:01 +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 1ATvbw-0000pW-HJ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:06:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATvbM-0000fo-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATvaq-0000RF-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:05:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATvaq-0000Pr-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:04:56 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBA33ZKk013540; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:03:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id hBA2uiF24015; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:56:44 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: eliz@elta.co.il In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 09 Dec 2003 12:06:49 +0200) 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:18600 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18600 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Can give some bad surprises, like typing `f' followed by a reference > one is seeing on the screen and the reader going to a "closer" > off-screen reference of the same name. Does this really happen in practice? That is, can you really create a situation where an off-screen reference wins? Yes. In the `Entry' node of the following file, put point at the start of the line containing the first of the series of a's. Do: M-0 C-l. The `@xref{Top, , , dir}.' is now out of view. We do `f' and see: Follow xref (Top): If we accept the default (or type Top), we go to (dir)Top, an off-screen reference, whereas `@xref{Top, Top, , elisp}.' is visible. ===File ~/experiment.texi=================================== \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @comment %**start of header @setfilename experiment.info @settitle An experiment. @comment %**end of header @node Top @top Top @menu * name: entry. description. @end menu @node entry @chapter Entry This node is called @samp{entry} @xref{Top}. @xref{Top, , , dir}. a a a a a @xref{Top, Top, , elisp}. @bye ============================================================ Resulting .info file: ===File ~/experiment.info=================================== This is experiment.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.6 from experiment.texi.  File: experiment.info, Node: Top, Next: entry, Up: (dir) Top *** * Menu: * name: entry. description.  File: experiment.info, Node: entry, Prev: Top, Up: Top Entry ***** This node is called `entry' *Note Top::. *Note Top: (dir)Top. a a a a a *Note Top: (elisp)Top.  Tag Table: Node: Top81 Node: entry201  End Tag Table ============================================================