Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct

[Alan <wehmann@fnal.gov>]

The texinfo construct "@anchor" is used extensively in the texi files that go into making the info file "perldoc-all.info".

(See http://www.gnu.org/software/perl/manual/)

The documentation for @anchor in the texinfo Info file led me to believe that a cross reference to an anchor name would jump to that location in the info file.  I find this not to be the case.  The jump seems to be to the node location where the @anchor statement is found.  This is different from inserting a @cindex index entry name next to the @anchor statment; in that case the defined index name goes directly to the location of the @cindex.

The observed behavior for @anchor makes it much less useful that I had anticipated.

As an example in "perldoc-all.info", do '(Info-goto-node "perlfunc package NAMESPACE")'.  You will end up at the top of the alphabetical list of the perl functions--instead at the location of the anchor for "package NAMESPACE" (see the file perlfunc.texi).