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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:37:35 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buobq6fvssg.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c871cd$64e4a6c0$e140908d@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:27:14 -0800")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> But first things first. What is the rationale for this? Does it really
> fulfill a need? If not, let's just get rid of it, to avoid unnecessary
> confusion.

I agree.

Seeing the raw info file as a result of goto-node is pretty odd,
unlikely to be very useful for most people (especially now that info
does inter-node search very naturally with normal isearch), and fairly
likely to confuse those who stumble upon this "feature" by accident.

Are there people that use this feature regularly?

-Miles

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-18  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-17 22:25 Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node Drew Adams
2008-02-17 22:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-17 23:05   ` Bastien
2008-02-17 23:22   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 23:53     ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18  0:27       ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-18  0:56         ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 23:54           ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-19  0:48             ` Bastien
2008-02-21 19:24               ` Drew Adams
2008-02-18  0:02     ` Drew Adams
2008-02-18  0:29       ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-18  0:54         ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18  1:27         ` Drew Adams
2008-02-18  3:37           ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-02-18  4:12             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-18 11:56               ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 23:55             ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-18 17:31           ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 17:40             ` Drew Adams
2008-02-19 15:45               ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-19 21:35                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-20  3:23                 ` Drew Adams

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