From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Multiple index entries Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:11:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220214140020.04438C00891@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <871qris3xb.fsf@gnus.org> <877d1aqoc1.fsf@posteo.net> <87edvhqdrb.fsf@gnus.org> <871qrh2hh6.fsf@posteo.net> <87mta5oyec.fsf@gnus.org> <87sfjx10x1.fsf@posteo.net> <875ygsp0ng.fsf@gnus.org> <87h70c9bu4.fsf@posteo.net> <874jw73cjy.fsf@posteo.net> <877d0z5216.fsf@posteo.net> <874jw05mh1.fsf@posteo.net> <83h700yslc.fsf@gnu.org> <87k04sn7xj.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13617"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 06:43:29 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ompJA-0003LI-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:43:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omnHo-0004cK-2Y; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omgNx-0007vv-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omgNx-0001bz-0Y; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:11:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=KHjXJpxf27/gPaZUEX6rrdLVY4QP+n8le+h7XOQKUP0=; b=RX1F8JedCHwN /+PPuRY+cEQ5H4q0JQx0spwQNYumCN2zXOiGXHYJhBNfqrdWZzcifmBRn4iW1Yw+JRN0UX4BGETcQ WCaasBJmksj2Wgfr1cu0WYcmLwuqg43lnwePLg7OVjY8iUp2z9lH6KMgxTanwvRBoNRJtWK/xqDjr Z3PZJl1tSVRevEb7OVS6mjAo9A0bSnJVOPapy+Ip3u0ALzDYpR66XHc1lK5xQ9hvdU0G7wmmsm1Se OupryhFy0f68ZW1vKw7txDPM1COikhuOV3MdOSF7vk2mSJ4qXSMAU5J4DqaTf1DljVkn2zKe1sB5E 4ygRquwQx6qoRf2tuvT3mw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omgNw-00066u-1k; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:11:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k04sn7xj.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:11:36 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298314 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> 3 matches for "Package from Source" in buffer: *info* > >> 1511:* package development source: Package from Source. > >> 1515:* package git source: Package from Source. > >> 1525:* package upstream source: Package from Source. The first two are so close that they are redundant; it is better to have just one of them. I think "development" is the more important of the two. The third one is 10 lines away. Maybe that is far enough not to be redundant. It is a judgment call. > 3 matches for "Package from Source" in buffer: *info* > 800:* git source of package: Package from Source. > 1513:* package development source: Package from Source. > 2083:* upstream source, for packages: Package from Source. Rotating the words in an index entry makes another index entry which normally would appear far away in the index. It can be useful to index multiple rotations of the same expression. For instance, "development source, of package" might be useful in addition to "package development source". "Upstream source, of package" might be useful in addition to "package upstream source". Each of them is useful to have in the index if more than a few users will look for the term that way in the index, and it isn't redundant with other index entries that would be close by. Back when I readied the Emacs Manual for publication in each version, I used to check the whole concept index for various blemishes, and redundant index entries was one of them. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)