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, 18 Dec 2003 11:59:11 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ekvahjnr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312121424.hBCEO6V06218@f7.net> <874qw5k973.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87pteppkz9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y8ta7rp7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071767098 8039 80.91.224.253 (18 Dec 2003 17:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 18:04:55 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 1AX1a2-0003oC-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:04:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AX1a2-00089q-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:04:54 +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 1AX2Wj-0001rT-OY for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:05:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AX2Uk-0008H8-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AX2U0-0006zX-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AX2U0-0006yX-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:02:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AX1UV-00074N-Cr; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:59:11 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87y8ta7rp7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 05:03:32 +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:18748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18748 I think Info-goto-node with a completion list without anchors might be useful for users that want to see only node names. For instance, currently Info-goto-node called on the Emacs manual adds anchors useless for users: Maybe we should make a convention to distinguish between anchors that users might find interesting and anchors users would never want to visit. For instance, maybe we could put spaces into the anchor names that users should not see, and exclude them from completion. But since now anchors are very infrequent in Info files they don't cause a problem yet. However, with more widespread use of anchors completion lists of node names will grow significantly. So, I think this discussion should be postponed until Info files have more anchors and thus it will be clear how many real problems anchors cause. That is ok.