From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:05:15 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znai8zuk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <200403120124.i2C1OsS22697@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079327761 9893 80.91.224.253 (15 Mar 2004 05:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 15 06:15:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2kS9-0006zt-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:15:53 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2kS8-0000jk-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:15:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kRP-00063b-TE for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:15:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kPL-00055U-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kOi-0004Ts-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:12:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kOh-0004Tj-JV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:12:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-2-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.2]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B4311DEC2; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:12:12 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200403120124.i2C1OsS22697@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:24:54 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20484 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20484 Luc Teirlinck writes: > There was a patch by Juri Linkov discussed in December that added > FORK arguments to several Info functions, I added FORK argument not to all Info navigation functions. Now I will add it to all of them. > as well as added several other features to Info. See the thread > "Info enhancements" from back in December. Since then I improved the info.el further. I will submit the latest version soon. > I believe only one of the several features (_not_ the FORK > stuff) was "controversial", but no part of the patch seems to ever > have been committed. IIRC, the "controversial" feature you refer to was guessing the target place within an Info node from the reference name. While I agree that this is an unreliable feature, it's still better than simply placing the point at the beginning of a big Info node. Another alternative is to use anchors, but it places responsibility on authors of Info manuals to define correct reference points. If using anchors is accepted solution then at least all Emacs manuals should be revised to find all such references that refer to big Info nodes and to make anchors for them. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/