From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:11:13 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200312031942.hB3JgAw08783@f7.net> <87zne9ukl5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070583815 26507 80.91.224.253 (5 Dec 2003 00:23:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:23:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 01:23:26 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 1AS3kk-00041e-00 for ; Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:23:26 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AS3kj-00082C-00 for ; Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:23:26 +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 1AS4i5-0007GE-PK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AS4YS-0007Zy-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:14:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AS4Xu-0007PB-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AS4We-00071D-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:12:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AS3Yv-0001po-03; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:11:13 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87zne9ukl5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:07:50 +0200) 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:18405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18405 > I must not have been clear. The format I meant is: > > * MENU-ENTRY-NAME: NODE-NAME. LINE_NUMBER. DESCRIPTION > > instead of Dave Gillespie's > > * MENU-ENTRY-NAME: NODE-NAME. DESCRIPTION. LINE_NUMBER. Of those two, I think the latter is better because the line number will be less intrusive. However, * MENU-ENTRY-NAME: NODE-NAME (LINE_NUMBER). DESCRIPTION or something along those lines would be even better. This makes it visible that the line number goes with the node name and that the two together spec the location. I chose parens for this example but that was arbitrary. I'm not attached to that particular detail. But what do you think about recording the locations of index entries in the tag table? For example: Something like this might be ok, depending on details, but it might be a bigger change.