Re: Annotating Info Pages?

[thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com]

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:

> thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com writes:
>
>     AFAIK we can bookmark only files an dirs.
>                  ^^^^^^^^
>
> Isn't an info file a file???

Not when you are reading info:

Go in an info buffer and eval:

(buffer-file-name (current-buffer))


>     What the OP want is writing personnal annotations  in the (info) file.
>     Not in the annotations of bookmark, like that you can keep reading your
>     file with your personnal annotations added in different places.
>
> Uh-huh.  And how is what I am saying to him different from what your
> original response said to him???
>
> From ipa.el:
>
> ;;; Commentary:
>
> ;;; With this package you can add annotations to your files without
> ;;; modifying them. Each file can have multiple annotations at various
> ;;; buffer positions. The annotation texts are not parts of the files,
> ;;; they are stored separately.
> ;;;
> ;;; All annotations are stored in a common file, so searching
> ;;; annotations is trivial.
>
> This is what I suggested the original poster do using something that is
> already in GNU/Emacs.
>
>     Eval it and try to bookmark it...
>
> No, Thierry, you eval it and read it, and I'd suggest doing `C-h m' (in
> a *Bookmark List* buffer) when you finally take the time to explore what
> it is that I am speaking of.

Same as above.

> Sorry for the harsh language, but, judging from the commentary of
> ipa.el, GNU/Emacs already does what you're suggesting the original
> poster do with it.

Ok, so just install ipa.el use it and you will see what is different.

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