From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#54175: 27.2; Info-follow-reference completions in reverse order Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 18:36:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83czj8nu6j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7A89A71F-708C-4217-989C-2E9990759E13@gmail.com> <831qzopymk.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1750"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 54175@debbugs.gnu.org To: Howard Melman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 27 17:37:12 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMXo-0000Fs-2K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:37:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35914 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMXn-0001MJ-0Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41058) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMXe-0001MB-Os for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMXe-0001XB-G5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMXe-000128-AD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:37:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:37:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 54175 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 54175-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B54175.16459797843925 (code B ref 54175); Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 54175) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Feb 2022 16:36:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59102 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMX2-00011F-LY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:36:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35198) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMX1-000112-8T for 54175@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:36:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52360 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMWw-0001O8-0i; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:36:18 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=0nAX6agIYs2Zad6sPQunxCKFIJeFSZTmkVod2+saF8U=; b=IURlhzaAaBmQ zpf1fH/ND8hgV2sY+MkwscTyT5oB1D2qGnYk8M6hSfA8pHUP1zjeN0CEB1keqCpZEUjcasbUabDFB W+jaocagS+E6GvyUoMuT6pqYu0T4cVjYMLOKzYeUT+LbDTOvp0wmX9XJcET4ACpypHHZnH2Jf0Qo8 EloOLwO3nQbhf4BrGSk4hagqTWGDXoP+0Y94/pvCVxHcFLM0u/ZeqEcGiSzxpSdl6Ml/vYl32o8Y7 0EXldMOeIvZufl6W8/hmQ1UrVKFM1NGtc2+9H7W9I0em4JHZfV5fZWWGqAegZAVP0fLGlgYgyaknO +RK+Mbkk22fzE59N+lp8yg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3551 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOMWu-0001dj-31; Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:36:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Howard Melman on Sun, 27 Feb 2022 10:43:49 -0500) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:227730 Archived-At: > From: Howard Melman > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 10:43:49 -0500 > > On Feb 27, 2022, at 2:17 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > I must say that I'm uneasy with such changes, which punish every user > > of Info because some optional completion facility out there would like > > that. It sounds wrong. Why shouldn't we expect from those optional > > completion facilities to do this if and when they need? > > 1. I understand your "who has the burden" argument but the cost of > reversing a list of a handful of items is hardly punishment. It doesn't have to be a handful, though. Large manuals, such as Emacs and ELisp, have some large nodes with many cross-references. For example, see the Glossary node.