From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: 18 Mar 2004 13:53:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403181837.i2IIbUV23148@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079636378 4980 80.91.224.253 (18 Mar 2004 18:59:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:59:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 19:59:31 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 1B42jr-0007wh-00 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:59:31 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B42jr-0000NE-00 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:59:31 +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 1B42h9-0001zr-PA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B42fh-0001ot-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B42eA-0000za-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B42dw-0000py-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:53:24 -0500 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547FA21085; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:53:18 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6BC4C8C8E4; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:53:17 -0500 (EST) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-Reply-To: <200403181837.i2IIbUV23148@f7.net> Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-1.428, requis 5, BAYES_20 -1.43) 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:20588 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20588 > The only long-term solution I've been able to think of is to allow > subnodes of (dir) and have the info readers look through the subnodes > when asked for a given top-level name -- but not load or display the > info in all the subnodes when showing the dir node itself. IIRC, Emacs's Info reader already allows the `dir' file to contain several nodes, just like any other Info package. Since I've never seen such a `dir' file, I have no idea whether it works or not. Another alternative is to have Info do an index search on some of the entries if nothing was found in the `dir' file. Which entries should be auto-searched this way could be specified via any number of ways. BTW, why does `info FOO BAR' only look for BAR in the menu of FOO instead of (or additionally to) looking for it in the Index? Stefan