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: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:48:48 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87isku20s6.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312061449.hB6Enaa16133@f7.net> <87r7zgqtxm.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071007704 30496 80.91.224.253 (9 Dec 2003 22:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 23:08:20 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 1ATq1k-0003dG-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:08:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATq1k-0001Lx-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:08:20 +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 1ATqmc-000445-II for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATqhr-0001bj-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:51:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATqhG-0001AO-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:51:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATqhC-000183-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ATpiq-0000DK-7T; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:48:48 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 08 Dec 2003 08:56:58 +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:18587 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18587 (IMHO, having several index entries with the same name is not a good idea, anyway. It is much better to disambiguate them by adding a bit of context information to each entry. For example, instead of having two entries that say "@cindex foo", do this: Our policy is to avoid such duplicates, and disambiguate instead.