From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: standard error not in Elisp manual index Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:11:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174781512 27813 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2007 00:11:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:11:52 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 25 01:11:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVGKn-0007wQ-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:11:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGMm-000429-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:13:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGMk-000423-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGMi-00041q-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGMi-00041n-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVGKd-0005GN-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l2P0BXOQ012928 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:11:33 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l2OLdwvO001670 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:11:32 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-72-161.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2560538431174781468; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:11:08 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68510 Archived-At: > C-h i, pick Elisp manual > i standard error => "No `standard error' in index > > But: > s standard error takes you to the top-level menu item Standard Errors > > I do not see why every node topic should be in the index. Certainly not; who claimed the contrary? What should be in the index are terms that users are likely to look to the index for. Some nodes will need no index entry; some nodes will need multiple entries. I would look in the index for a list of standard errors (types or messages), wouldn't you? In a conventional index, which has a small degree of hierarchy, I would expect entries such as this: errors handling messages standard types ... In the case of an Info index, I would expect the keywords "error" and "standard", together but in either order, to hit an index entry for the passage that presents the standard error types or the most important error messages.