From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:11:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <015154a6-54b1-4fd7-a023-76925ea0b546@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416194123 10031 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 03:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:15:23 +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 Nov 17 04:15:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqCmc-0001jd-Ef for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:15:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqCmb-0004qy-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:15:17 -0500 X-Received: by 10.66.183.145 with SMTP id em17mr35411392pac.17.1416193872245; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:11:12 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.52.198 with SMTP id v6mr21278obo.13.1416193872126; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:11:12 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no1645334igd.0!news-out.google.com!c9ni14081igv.0!nntp.google.com!h15no1645324igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.150.232.44; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.150.232.44 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:11:12 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208702 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100980 Archived-At: 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 th= at a cross reference to an anchor name would jump to that location in the i= nfo file. I find this not to be the case. The jump seems to be to the nod= e location where the @anchor statement is found. This is different from in= serting a @cindex index entry name next to the @anchor statment; in that ca= se 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 anti= cipated. 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 p= erl functions--instead at the location of the anchor for "package NAMESPACE= " (see the file perlfunc.texi).