From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:39:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4fa0393b-2e0b-461b-a31c-48b99bfee272@googlegroups.com> References: <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 1416570024 4646 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2014 11:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:40:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 12:40:19 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 1XrmZV-0007dv-GT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:40:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrmZV-0002rZ-4v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 06:40:17 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.70.100 with SMTP id o64mr4002845yhd.9.1416569977627; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:39:37 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.29.66 with SMTP id i2mr10909obh.18.1416569977463; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:39:37 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!w8no1337894qac.0!news-out.google.com!ks2ni26662igb.0!nntp.google.com!h15no4939331igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <015154a6-54b1-4fd7-a023-76925ea0b546@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.150.187.198; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.150.187.198 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:39:37 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208822 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:101102 Archived-At: On Sunday, November 16, 2014 9:11:14 PM UTC-6, Alan wrote: > The texinfo construct "@anchor" is used extensively in the texi files tha= t go into making the info file "perldoc-all.info". >=20 > (See http://www.gnu.org/software/perl/manual/) >=20 > 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 n= ode 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. >=20 > The observed behavior for @anchor makes it much less useful that I had an= ticipated. >=20 > As an example in "perldoc-all.info", do '(Info-goto-node "perlfunc packag= e 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 NAMESPA= CE" (see the file perlfunc.texi). If I start up Emacs with no initialization file then reference to an anchor= works properly--i.e. as described in the texinfo Info file. So, the probl= em is something that needs fixing in my initialization file.