From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages? Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:25:12 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200904251425.n3PEPCJL010351@zogzog.maillard.mobi> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240673303 30939 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2009 15:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sean Sieger Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 17:29:43 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 1Lxjoy-0000i0-Tx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:29:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58072 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxjnZ-0001Zx-CD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxjmX-0001UM-SI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxjmX-0001Tu-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40746 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxjmW-0001Tq-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ded1.conovae.com ([88.191.52.166]:54151 helo=mf1.conovae.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LxjmW-0003eR-D1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: by mf1.conovae.net (Postfix, from userid 10) id 414CA260131; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:23:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from zogzog.maillard.mobi (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3PEPCwg010352; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:25:12 +0200 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.3/8.13.8/Submit) id n3PEPCJL010351; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:25:12 +0200 In-reply-to: message from Sean Sieger on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:06:39 -0400 User-Agent: Rmail GNU emacs 23.0 on Slackware 12.2.0 Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr Original-References: X-UUCPssh-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-UUCPssh: Found to be clean X-UUCPssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-UUCPssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:64018 Archived-At: 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. [I am the new maintainer of ipa.el] ipa means In Place Annotation. You write your annotations right where the point is. The annotation is then displayed just right where it is. In the other hand, bookmark annotations are shown in another buffer. I feel less comfortable to use them for the exact reason. Maybe, in a near future, both could be merged since, in the end, the goal are pretty the same: have point in a buffer/file/whatever be bookmarked and/or be annotated. I hope I was clear in my explanations. Regards Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org