From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:24:20 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403191747.i2JHlPS28017@f7.net> <3405-Sat20Mar2004160433+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079933569 19065 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 05:32:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:32:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 06:32:45 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 1B5I3J-0001qY-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:32:45 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5I3I-0002AJ-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:32:44 +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 1B5I1q-0001Cj-Kf for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Hzw-0000SS-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:29:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5HzQ-0008G2-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:29:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5HzQ-0008Fy-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:28:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B5HvA-000757-FE; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:24:20 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 21 Mar 2004 08:19:06 +0200) 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:20700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20700 If we rely on humans to do any significant part of the job, why not ask them to do it all the way? Let's have a new Texinfo command that will add its argument to a global index used to do searches in all the manuals. For example, the following directive @gindex strcpy will produce something that install-info could copy to the system-wide database I mentioned above. This has two major disadvantages. 1. It fails to catagorize the names. I don't want to have command names mixed up with C functions and Perl functions and Lisp functions and file formats. 2. It requires changes in texinfo itself. I am seeking a solution that does not require any changes in makeinfo or install-info.