From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Visher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:38:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878wlst974.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240486739 2051 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2009 11:38:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sean Sieger Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 13:40:18 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 1LwxHn-0008Hu-1O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:40:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwxGN-0001er-O4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwxG1-0001el-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwxFw-0001eV-8P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53184 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwxFw-0001eS-51 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f161.google.com ([209.85.218.161]:47677) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LwxFu-0000Oj-VA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so496258bwz.42 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:38:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+SosDHiCL1Cgx9KY7GfuGCAbyiM2ESTjMqqN+70Ozl0=; b=doYRZmN5EFpkUijJq2y4qNfDodrmCJWPg4pP+V8HKiUy2HaP4lFEvjBzoUjuLhunFe fArLGsh/cp7TY3asnSOhbPo0V9CU4mEVf8Wv48Ah+iMxCGYDIB/nysPDcaHArnPrlypW VXCBb0j+yYk7KF4b3YCd8dvqm7usZA2qs4chs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AjauG7YEcaEM3pIk2JxFmUEQi3vPl4hbuPliIYF4O0wfmHtTjoUFPjgYOTPTyPNHTx kD7YIISgCGd82b8JQ+q7UQQYK2/6KlJKF6JEplNHfI864VuLLWvVp+QbrFFt+sC8ukmj ETF0fhEyhzpPPDHTD07ndxeF2fgdfAy0U4icQ= Original-Received: by 10.204.118.207 with SMTP id w15mr847592bkq.126.1240486693384; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:38:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878wlst974.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:63971 Archived-At: 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. 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. Thanks again for the help! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail