From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:06:01 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7704-Wed10Dec2003100601+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> 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> <200312100256.hBA2uiF24015@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071043749 9334 80.91.224.253 (10 Dec 2003 08:09:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:09:09 +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 09:09:05 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 1ATzP7-0002oS-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:09:05 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATzP7-00038q-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:09:05 +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 1AU0Lw-00079K-US for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:09:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AU0LY-00077U-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:09:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AU0L2-0006w4-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:09:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AU0L2-0006vZ-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.154.120]) by legolas.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.8-GR) with ESMTP id AXM14413; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:07:14 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200312100256.hBA2uiF24015@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:56:44 -0600 (CST)) 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:18612 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18612 > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:56:44 -0600 (CST) > From: Luc Teirlinck > > > 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. Sounds like a bug in the stand-alone reader: it should have filtered out off-screen references, unless they are the only ones in the node. I probably failed to consider this possibility (or perhaps there's no easy way to know what's off screen in the stand-alone reader).