From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:49:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3wz97e5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <966d2154-942f-48f6-b48c-5f6085270c69@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:23:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alan <wehmann@fnal.gov>
>
> On Monday, November 17, 2014 10:41:06 AM UTC-6, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:11:12 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: Alan <wehmann_at_fnal.gov>
> > > Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:11:12 +0000
> > >
> > > 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 node location where the @anchor statement is found.
> >
> > Which Emacs version do you use? This works for me as you expected in
> > Emacs 24.4. I tried this in a manual other than perldoc, but I don't
> > think there should be a difference.
>
> I am using
>
> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2013-03-12 on bob.porkrind.org
>
> I guess that means that I should investigate upgrading to 24.4 (to get the expected behavior of @anchor).
I'm not sure anything has changed in this area since 24.3.
Can you try with one of the manuals distributed with Emacs?
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2014-11-17 3:11 Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct Alan
2014-11-17 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-11-18 22:23 ` Alan
2014-11-19 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2014-11-19 5:22 ` Alan
2014-11-19 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-11-20 3:45 ` Alan
2014-11-20 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.14180.1416504607.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-21 4:01 ` Alan
2014-11-21 4:16 ` Alan
2014-11-21 11:39 ` Alan
2014-11-22 23:19 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.14359.1416698366.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-23 13:43 ` Alan
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