From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:56:09 -0400 Message-ID: <874owfttp2.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878wlst974.fsf@gmail.com> <87hc0fbn5w.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240491430 18126 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2009 12:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:57:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 14:58:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LwyVR-0001XL-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:58:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyU2-00062Y-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyTd-00062I-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyTY-0005yc-H6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46431 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyTY-0005yR-AK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:56:24 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34450 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LwyTX-0001Pz-Qf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:56:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyTV-0002De-G5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:56:21 +0000 Original-Received: from pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net ([70.18.28.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:56:21 +0000 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:56:21 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2/GP26k9dF3z81am7c6dwbIcYsw= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63975 Archived-At: thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com writes: ipa.el is for writing annotation in files and bookmarks to bookmark file names or directory name. Um, you can Bookmark any point---in the strictest sense, mind you, you can have point return to its exact position with Bookmarks---not just to file or directory names. _And_ Bookmarks' annotation functionality is way simple with `e' to edit the annotation of a bookmark and C-c C-c to save. So that's two things completely differents. I'm not really sure what you're trying to say Thierry. > Actually, I don't know much about either option. I figured that > Bookmarks would allow me to mark a spot and give it a name or some > brief description so that I could get back to it quickly. By > annotating I mean writing extensive notes and attaching them to a > given paragraph or word or something along those lines. If I can do > that with Bookmarks then that's a nice win. Probably at some point > today I'll read up on both. I'll send out my decision for those who > are interested. So i i said above, bookmarks are not designed to do what you want. (info "(emacs) Bookmarks")