Re: Info enhancements

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
>    Why do you need an extra argument to Info-follow-reference?  It seems
>    to me that Info-follow-reference has access to the value of `(point)'
>    and should be able to get things right from that value.

I thought that since `Info-try-follow-nearest-node' already matches a
reference name regexp, this regexp could be extended to match a node
name too, and its value could be transfered to Info-follow-reference
by extra argument.  However, this can be done in Info-follow-reference
as well given than point is still located on a position with reference.

> Or do you plan to ask the user for more information if the user enters
> `f top', `f variables' or whatever and that could refer to nodes in
> several different manuals?

Yes, there is another problem with similarly named references: how to
select a reference unambiguously from a completion list.  I thought
that node name could be concatenated with a reference name to form one
item string in a completion list to disambiguate them, for instance:

Top::
Top: (elisp)Top

and after an item is selected from the minibuffer to split it to two
values: reference name and node name and use them as function
arguments.

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