From: thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc0fbn5w.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c115fd3c0904230438p100121ccwcf7c165721b3d58@mail.gmail.com
Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I understand that there's a way to bookmark an info file so that I can
>> easily reference things that interest me later on. Is there also a
>> way to annotate info files such that I add my own little notes along
>> the way in a browsable or at least visible fashion from within the
>> Info file?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> While doing `e' in an *info* buffer and installing ipa.el are something
>> to look into, Bookmarks is part of Emacs and does a simple job in a
>> single separate .emacs.bmk file, or as many .bmk files as you'd like to
>> have. Bookmarks may also be annotated.
>>
>> I'm interested in why ipa.el is preferable to Bookmarks.
ipa.el is for writing annotation in files and bookmarks to bookmark file
names or directory name.
So that's two things completely differents.
> 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 17:53 Annotating Info Pages? Tim Visher
2009-04-22 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-22 18:42 ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-04-23 2:06 ` Sean Sieger
2009-04-23 11:38 ` Tim Visher
2009-04-23 11:54 ` thierry.volpiatto [this message]
2009-04-23 12:56 ` Sean Sieger
2009-04-23 13:03 ` Sean Sieger
2009-04-23 13:47 ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-04-23 16:00 ` Sean Sieger
2009-04-23 17:02 ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-04-23 18:04 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5897.1240502443.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-23 16:51 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-23 18:15 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5901.1240510538.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-23 18:41 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-23 12:25 ` Shaun Johnson
[not found] ` <mailman.5843.1240452419.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-23 15:12 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-23 16:02 ` Sean Sieger
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2009-04-22 20:25 Xavier Maillard
2009-04-22 21:23 ` Tim Visher
2009-04-23 6:25 Xavier Maillard
[not found] <mailman.5910.1240521876.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-23 21:27 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-25 14:25 Xavier Maillard
2009-04-25 17:32 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.6021.1240680788.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-25 18:03 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-25 20:31 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.6033.1240691520.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-25 20:56 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-25 23:31 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.6035.1240702306.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-25 23:48 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-25 21:00 ` Samuel Wales
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