Re: Info enhancements

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
>     For example, currently the Glossary node of the
>     Emacs Manual has non-functional references that merely has a form of a
>     simple text "(q.v.)" or "See `default.'".  
>
> I see.  Yes, this is more or less what anchors were invented for.
> As far as glossary entries go, I think that would work ok.  The
> reference name solution seems too heuristic.

Anchors wouldn't work in this case because many glossary entries have
the same names as Info nodes (e.g. "Filling", "Global Mark Ring" and
many others).  Making anchors for them is not possible because anchors
and nodes can't have the same names.  So, using the reference name
solution seems inevitable here.

> However, I certainly agree with the comment that if we make an anchor
> for every index entry, that's too many anchors (it would make the i cmd
> a subset of g :).  Instead, I think indexes are important enough that
> they deserve special treatment.
>
> In fact, we've had this discussion before, in the context of allowing
> arbitrary index names (specifically, ones with a :).  One message from
> that thread is from rms, on 26 Jun 2003 01:30:50 -0400, Message-Id:
> <E19VPLO-0004C2-6Q@fencepost.gnu.org>.

I found this message, but I have one question to administrators of the
emacs-devel mailing list: does the emacs-devel archive exist in mbox
format available for download?  Often there is a need to read old
discussions, but web interface to archives is too inconvenient.  Much
better is to browse mail archives in a local mbox file by one of the
Emacs mail readers.

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