From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:27:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176145166 16598 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2007 18:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:59:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 20:59:00 2007 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 1HaxDH-0007MQ-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:59:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaxH6-0007bo-R6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaxFu-0007Gk-Du for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaxFr-0007Er-JV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaxFr-0007Ek-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaxC0-0005tW-8E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Havp8-0005yC-RU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-248-28.inter.net.il [84.228.248.28]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GLY20468 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:27:06 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Rehceb Rotkiv on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:05:40 -0500) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-detected-kernel: 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:42526 Archived-At: > From: Rehceb Rotkiv > Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:05:40 -0500 > > > But the _real_ fix is to complain to the authors of the Python manual: > > Then I would have to complain to a whole lot of authors, as identical > indices seem to be common practice! It may be common practice, but it's bad practice nonetheless. > On a quick look, I also found them in the Elisp and Bashref manuals. The ELisp manual has 9 such occurrences out of 4000 index entries. But thanks for pointing this out, I will fix them all for the next release. > However this is handled, it would be useful to have a function in info- > lookup-symbol that jumps to the next matching index (similar to "," in > "i" = Info-index), because often there are multiple relevant entries for > one symbol, like e.g. "some_item (definition)" and "some_item (syntax)", > that one would typically want to consult successively. I agree. Please feel free to suggest this on emacs-devel@gnu.org.