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: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:27:42 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765gcqcs1.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87ekvahjnr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312121424.hBCEO6V06218@f7.net> <874qw5k973.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87pteppkz9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y8ta7rp7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312191403.hBJE35o05730@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 1071898899 4838 80.91.224.253 (20 Dec 2003 05:41:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 05:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 20 06:41:34 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 1AXZrp-000845-00 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 06:41:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AXZrn-0006Hj-00 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 06:41:31 +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 1AXalf-0001ba-RK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:39:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AXalU-0001ZY-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AXakw-0001WN-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:39:01 -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 1AXakw-0001WE-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from 80-235-37-158-dsl.mus.estpak.ee ([80.235.37.158] helo=mail.jurta.org) by ns5.tangramltd.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AXZnL-0002sy-Fe; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:36:55 +0200 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200312191403.hBJE35o05730@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:03:05 -0600 (CST)") 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:18768 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18768 Luc Teirlinck writes: > If you click on the ` of the `@verbatim': reference you indeed go > there, but clicking elsewhere on the reference produces an error. It was caused by an incomplete regexp for references. I will post a fix in the next version of the full patch to info.el. > Your patch still seems to try to guess places in the node when one > follows cross-references. No, this is not related to guessing places in the node. > I believe that it would be better to give up on that, since it would > use the second or third argument to @xref and friends in a way that > was not intended. I still think this is a useful feature. And currently it works exactly as the standalone Info reader does. But we could add an option for users willing to disable this feature. > I believe it is OK in index menus. But even going from index menus it sometimes misses the right place. After adding information about positions of index entries to Info files it would work better than guessing. -- http://www.jurta.org/emacs/