From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:12:53 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240501938 29559 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2009 15:52:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:52:18 +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 17:53:37 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 1Lx197-0005ML-Ks for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:47:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lx17i-0002Jl-8D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:46:02 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19cBPWxNBvX91DTseT0QnOrTwtc3QVDfAOZkSH9cEhrRF1TpIdwlIqD/54d+UbZgYo0SrS/spk0qPDc0q+mmp3zDvvvz0IPzYH6GtpqbxXb31VWv2N83kNuSMuzsqYI6Eq/U/msZHzbnA== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:12:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+c7c0dSGt/kFZGClvXaV32MOhZG0ctnAfhdXt9W9guOg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:1ELsuFJCJD1ahosaEpF9QqcEkSc= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168708 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:63983 Archived-At: Sean Sieger writes: > 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. > > > Try it and see : it uses overlays for a start.