From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:51:00 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <871xrfd4e3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070877624 10906 80.91.224.253 (8 Dec 2003 10:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 11:00:18 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 1ATIBd-0005Ax-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:00:17 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATIBd-0005vG-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:00:17 +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 1ATJ6M-0003cd-LC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATJ65-0003ZA-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATJ5Z-0003F3-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.246.52.22] (helo=ns5.tangramltd.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ATJ5Z-0003Dg-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:58:05 -0500 Original-Received: from 80-235-39-153-dsl.mus.estpak.ee ([80.235.39.153] helo=mail.jurta.org) by ns5.tangramltd.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ATI83-00055M-5F; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:56:35 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "08 Dec 2003 08:45:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns5.tangramltd.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - 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:18544 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18544 Eli Zaretskii writes: > The preference given to the reference at or closest to point does > sound like a reasonable feature, doesn't it? I agree that using the reference closest to point is a reasonable feature. Firstly, the cases with two references with the same name in one Info node are very rare. Secondly, mostly users put point on the reference before following it. So this feature will work in the most cases. So I agree that Emacs should behave similarly. I'll look over the source code of the stand-alone reader. -- http://www.jurta.org/emacs/