From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Guerry Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:56:15 +0000 Message-ID: <87pruufpgg.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: <006901c871b3$f4da48d0$2d58908d@us.oracle.com> <006a01c871b5$33b5a260$2d58908d@us.oracle.com> <87tzk7godg.fsf@jurta.org> <008301c871c1$9f45d5c0$2d58908d@us.oracle.com> <87k5l3cdk0.fsf@jurta.org> <000001c871cd$64e4a6c0$e140908d@us.oracle.com> <8e24944a0802172012w7fa68beft213e2795041de9e6@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203335800 9629 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2008 11:56:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:56:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Drew Adams , Miles Bader To: "David De La Harpe Golden" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 12:57:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JR4cG-0008Tc-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:57:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JR4bm-0004cI-8T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JR4bi-0004cB-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JR4bg-0004be-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JR4bg-0004bb-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JR4bg-0000iW-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JR4bf-0004oT-DV for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JR4bc-0000hi-2T for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JR4bb-0000hS-Lb for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:56:19 -0500 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so319054ugf.48 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:56:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:sender; bh=CiWy4c00oswr3XgGOIilHrTxjUzLntRepbZlHX/bbos=; b=V+pAWdArboL1yExMtUhOmnI2KEQeJz19Kcl+iRvUF63yMk3w3v3CnnGjdKfzrz0W7fNmnGPfMZi9zCF/YfguQ8Y9ViTMBDLbwQfGZLQAcMxoxR16l3vTzfqpZ7f0VwFVs0CkyfiT33WYlkT/s7f+8nykUWnw8yFYNIU3+Y8vV0E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:sender; b=hqcEQjuXpDoP0FPDVa+i8sEa7oJPb9PO/2qOztzBD47arGgjVAhpbBnF0/l+zXxHRrLeHQHrdHX0TSHksZ3IPeqT+ILPCt6XAV2qdvmtBp6oeYpT3dd1tjAJ2oIbT62PC6N111kPaVjC2buO8ZzYB79BEy5i6T4+pk/yYaLe40M= Original-Received: by 10.67.196.2 with SMTP id y2mr3083977ugp.60.1203335778782; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:56:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from bzg.ath.cx ( [81.99.213.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y6sm1586106uge.36.2008.02.18.03.56.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:56:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by bzg.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 968601575BD; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:56:15 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <8e24944a0802172012w7fa68beft213e2795041de9e6@mail.gmail.com> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:12:57 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89464 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21193 Archived-At: "David De La Harpe Golden" writes: > On 18/02/2008, Miles Bader wrote: >> "Drew Adams" writes: >> > But first things first. What is the rationale for this? Does it really >> > fulfill a need? If not, let's just get rid of it, to avoid unnecessary >> > confusion. >> >> I agree. >> >> Seeing the raw info file as a result of goto-node is pretty odd, >> unlikely to be very useful for most people (especially now that info >> does inter-node search very naturally with normal isearch), and fairly >> likely to confuse those who stumble upon this "feature" by accident. > > Also, how does it differ from C-x n w widening the info buffer? It doesn't. I suggest we get rid of this "feature". > Ideally, I suppose an "all nodes" thing would show all nodes, but > still prettied for viewing, something like a "view docs as one big > HTML" translated web page, maybe with info commands working relative > to the node the point is in, and that would be the difference, but it > seems that g * is very similar to just turning off narrow at the > moment. Someone could work on this later. I guess it would be useful, especially for small info manuals. -- Bastien