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: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:24:06 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200312121424.hBCEO6V06218@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071239224 9773 80.91.224.253 (12 Dec 2003 14:27:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 15:26:59 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 1AUoFv-0004QG-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUoFu-00018W-01 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:26:58 +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 1AUpCt-0002Vh-UW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:27:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUpCd-0002RT-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUpC5-0002AI-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:27:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.61.216.22] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUpAc-0001Yp-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:25:34 -0500 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id hBCEO6V06218; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:24:06 -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:18657 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18657 Seems anchors are useful only for making references to them, not for selecting them from completion list. I don't see any a priori reason to suppose it's not useful to "g"o to an anchor. One document's anchor is another document's node. (I mean, the division into nodes vs. subnode positioning via anchors is a judgement call, not an absolute fact.) That said, I don't feel terribly strongly about whether "g" includes anchor names in possible completions or not. Standalone Info does. ... the reference names feature. I still think this feature is very useful especially for moving from indexes directly to lines where index items are described. This feature can be replaced later gradually by anchors as suggested by Luc. I don't understand. I thought that this required index entries to be used as the second or third arg of xrefs, and I am not aware of any manuals which make xrefs like that. Nor is that how @xref is intended to be used. Am I confused? Are you somehow implicitly inserting references to index definitions? The other changes seem good, as far as I understand them. (Discounting my aversion to Info-hide-note-references.) Thanks, karl