From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:27:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uabxhmuur.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2007.04.09.12.05.59@no.spam.plz> (message from Rehceb Rotkiv on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:05:40 -0500)
> From: Rehceb Rotkiv <rehceb@no.spam.plz>
> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:05:40 -0500
>
> > But the _real_ fix is to complain to the authors of the Python manual:
>
> Then I would have to complain to a whole lot of authors, as identical
> indices seem to be common practice!
It may be common practice, but it's bad practice nonetheless.
> On a quick look, I also found them in the Elisp and Bashref manuals.
The ELisp manual has 9 such occurrences out of 4000 index entries.
But thanks for pointing this out, I will fix them all for the next
release.
> However this is handled, it would be useful to have a function in info-
> lookup-symbol that jumps to the next matching index (similar to "," in
> "i" = Info-index), because often there are multiple relevant entries for
> one symbol, like e.g. "some_item (definition)" and "some_item (syntax)",
> that one would typically want to consult successively.
I agree. Please feel free to suggest this on emacs-devel@gnu.org.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-09 15:27 UTC|newest]
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2007-04-08 23:07 info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 6:57 ` info-lookup-symbol Eli Zaretskii
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2007-04-09 12:05 ` info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 12:48 ` info-lookup-symbol Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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2007-04-09 14:20 ` info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 14:50 ` info-lookup-symbol Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 18:15 ` info-lookup-symbol Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2006-02-05 17:35 info-lookup-symbol Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-06 7:51 ` info-lookup-symbol Juri Linkov
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