From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: 04 Sep 2002 14:14:47 +0900 Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031116416 4441 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2002 05:13:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mSTu-00019U-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:13:34 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA00341; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA32288 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA32270 for turnbull@tux.org; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp [202.32.8.202]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA32205 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g845En413552; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:14:49 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g845Em501453; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:14:48 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g845Elh12575; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:14:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g845Els24580; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:14:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 6F95B36F4; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:14:47 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1378 gmane.emacs.devel:7435 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7435 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > There's no reason why indexing command couldn't be embedded in > > doc-strings/comments. > > Right. However, my point was that coming up with the index entries is > not a job for a program, it requires human intervention. Sure, but since the `automatic' step I was talking was transforming doc-strings/comments -> info nodes, embedding such commands would avoid the problem of automatic index generation. In addition, they would be useful without info as well, makeing it possible to have a `doc-string index', which might be more useful than a simple apropos in many cases. -Miles -- I have seen the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo