From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:49:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83r3wz97e5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <015154a6-54b1-4fd7-a023-76925ea0b546@googlegroups.com> <966d2154-942f-48f6-b48c-5f6085270c69@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416369013 21111 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 03:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 03:50:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 04:50:07 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 1XqwHP-0003av-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 04:50:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqwHO-0002Yq-Og for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqwH9-0002Y7-Cb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:49:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqwH2-0003jo-BD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:49:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:52386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqwH2-0003jZ-2o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF900A00ONGTE00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:49:42 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF900AOFPAUU110@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:49:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <966d2154-942f-48f6-b48c-5f6085270c69@googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:101051 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:23:02 -0800 (PST) > From: Alan > > 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 > > > 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?