Re: Annotating Info Pages?

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

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

> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     Hello Everyone,
>
>     I understand that there's a way to bookmark an info file so that I can
>     easily reference things that interest me later on.  Is there also a
>     way to annotate info files such that I add my own little notes along
>     the way in a browsable or at least visible fashion from within the
>     Info file?
>
>     Thanks in advance!
>
> While doing `e' in an *info* buffer and installing ipa.el are something
> to look into, Bookmarks is part of Emacs and does a simple job in a
> single separate .emacs.bmk file, or as many .bmk files as you'd like to
> have.  Bookmarks may also be annotated.
>
> I'm interested in why ipa.el is preferable to Bookmarks.
>
>
>

Try it and see : it uses overlays for a start.