From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, 13989@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13989: Make Info support footnotes
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:50:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ng620h2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obefdnuq.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:30:21 +0200
> Cc: 13989@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > And it's pretty straightforward to implement:
>
> But footnotes are still not navigable. Typing `TAB' should navigate
> to the next/previous footnote as it does for the cross-node references
> and URLs.
>
> Since adding a footnote regexp to `Info-next-reference' will create
> false positives such as e.g. `TAB' will find plain text "(1)" and "(2)"
> in the node (info "(emacs) Copying"), a better approach would be
> to support text-property links like used in the *Help* buffers where
> links have a special text property that `TAB' (`forward-button')
> searches for to navigate to the next link.
>
> These two approaches can co-exist in Info, so `TAB' will move point
> to the closest position found either by `re-search-forward' or
> `next-single-char-property-change'.
>
> Later these text properties could be added to links in virtual nodes
> because this approach is more efficient and reliable.
What if the footnote style is set to 'Separate' in the Texinfo
sources?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-20 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-18 10:24 bug#13989: Make Info support footnotes Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-18 22:35 ` Juri Linkov
2013-03-19 22:30 ` Juri Linkov
2013-03-20 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-20 23:05 ` Juri Linkov
2013-03-21 8:09 ` Xue Fuqiao
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