From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: zedzap@gmail.com, 3454@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:37:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd49jkfxt.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MCFX5-00028C-Kn@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:11:11 -0400")
>> Actually I think that SPC's behavior in index nodes is wrong.
>> Basically, SPC currently presumes that info nodes linked by menus form
>> a tree, and it is mostly true, but not for index menus.
> Index is just a large menu; it's not easy to distinguish the two, and
> the decision would be error-prone. We already tried to ``improve''
> Info, and I cannot say that the result looks good.
Wether we should fix the behavior is a different question from whether
it's right or wrong. I think the behaviro is wrong. I agree that's
it's not terribly important, so unless we can come up with a fix that is
simple and reliable, it's probably better to leave things as they are.
This said, "recent" versions of makeinfo label index nodes with an
"index cookie", so if we see such a cookie, we know for sure we're in an
index node. That should make it possible to write a good patch.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 18:37 UTC|newest]
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2009-06-03 5:40 ` bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node Shannon Jones
2009-06-03 15:45 ` bug#3454: marked as done (<SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-06-03 23:41 ` Johan =?UTF-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd
2009-06-03 18:15 ` bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node Shannon Jones
2009-06-04 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-04 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-04 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-06-08 18:26 ` bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to thewrong node Drew Adams
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