From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:54:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87hc0fbn5w.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <878wlst974.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240488918 9331 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2009 12:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:15:18 +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 14:16:37 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 1Lwxqy-0003Qc-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:16:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwxpZ-0001Sz-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwxcm-0005pd-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwxcf-0005oU-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53816 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwxcd-0005oE-C0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46998 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 1Lwxcc-0005P3-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LwxcV-00087H-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:01:35 +0000 Original-Received: from 203.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:01:35 +0000 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 203.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:01:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHAwNfJRBVTESlTym0 RB/OwKFivhZqAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABeElE QVQ4y3VTW47CMAyMwwUyTfYfUvG/wfC/ET4B0t7/KmsHurRgXFVVPRm/xglhsRj2+npW98G3+Amp tS5BXxl3SqzcXGRuEyf7n5lPA9jXetNPRhE7EJkzfz8YWnIgBSwW95TK4H79/t4GINKNADWj4PgA DiJX/ZxFDzDXeb4oYMw7kNUvyMzcaj3ioICG4hCKEShkPpwQ49Q05nnkGAQLDFDdExjm0qpowBYA Wi61bDlFU1GW0WbY2dSJYX5ZD2S0AiZL+rPyE19TpMzP2IvNWly+NkuWNgD4pO2oL73IQXoSyVX2 NHna7tgadWRXoCdvf2guqEcvGHqZwE520iRD0/QCYiiTE+U21w1Qxvg6iSp9fbIiDCnSAelDkCVF Vn+HekqXzRybwJ40xF4DMRG6SWGK9G1lYzHSxLYEm05GWbpJCB6A9tb9A3BGn2XdwJbS/WuInj74 4QNF8sVFdP3vl+5tgYp4Ev7fyrfFMkXgElDgV4uV/w8TWEeLCIGJ/AAAACV0RVh0Y3JlYXRlLWRh dGUAMjAwOC0wNS0zMVQyMDoxNDoyMiswMDowMAS7YjIAAAARdEVYdGpwZWc6Y29sb3JzcGFjZQAy LHVVnwAAACB0RVh0anBlZzpzYW1wbGluZy1mYWN0b3IAMngyLDF4MSwxeDFJ+qa0AAAAJXRFWHRt b2RpZnktZGF0ZQAyMDA3LTEwLTI4VDE2OjA4OjQ4KzAwOjAw44nspgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sFnUXB5pIM5TqLX4UxRLZcqk/MY= 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:63972 Archived-At: Tim Visher writes: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Sean Sieger wrote: >> Tim Visher 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. -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France