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 18:51:53 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <878wlst974.fsf@gmail.com> <87hc0fbn5w.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <874owfttp2.fsf@gmail.com> <87d4b3bhxz.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 1240508449 21509 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2009 17:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:40:49 +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 19:42:09 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 1Lx2vw-0006Ao-A1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:42:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lx2uX-0006gK-5l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!news.ecp.fr!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18gQCBtAjFsOkJjXBuqTmUoXiX2bj6I0QcNhPzFwRm8bxlepCMWYCuctNoqwFY+rK50qAtiyfmRcQNVo4NiYaKzCuH/tZwsMObHFBVZvG9jKf5QNIg6gIWWx2IoFxdsXIGhLSxXV27xrw== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:51:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX197NPdiDmfdBBQh9GmZH0E/gmMnxibfFS+umaKbuM5iPw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:DROZnLh99fT8otaMh3/FI5qXjtM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168713 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:63987 Archived-At: Sean Sieger writes: > thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com writes: > > AFAIK we can bookmark only files an dirs. > ^^^^^^^^ > > Isn't an info file a file??? > > What the OP want is writing personnal annotations in the (info) file. > Not in the annotations of bookmark, like that you can keep reading your > file with your personnal annotations added in different places. > > Uh-huh. And how is what I am saying to him different from what your > original response said to him??? > > From ipa.el: > > ;;; Commentary: > > ;;; With this package you can add annotations to your files without > ;;; modifying them. Each file can have multiple annotations at various > ;;; buffer positions. The annotation texts are not parts of the files, > ;;; they are stored separately. > ;;; > ;;; All annotations are stored in a common file, so searching > ;;; annotations is trivial. > > This is what I suggested the original poster do using something that is > already in GNU/Emacs. > > Eval it and try to bookmark it... > > No, Thierry, you eval it and read it, and I'd suggest doing `C-h m' (in > a *Bookmark List* buffer) when you finally take the time to explore what > it is that I am speaking of. > > Sorry for the harsh language, but, judging from the commentary of > ipa.el, GNU/Emacs already does what you're suggesting the original > poster do with it. > > > Sorry, but you're totally wrong.