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Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node
From: |
Bastien Guerry |
Subject: |
Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:56:15 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"David De La Harpe Golden" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 18/02/2008, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> > But first things first. What is the rationale for this? Does it really
>> > fulfill a need? If not, let's just get rid of it, to avoid unnecessary
>> > confusion.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> Seeing the raw info file as a result of goto-node is pretty odd,
>> unlikely to be very useful for most people (especially now that info
>> does inter-node search very naturally with normal isearch), and fairly
>> likely to confuse those who stumble upon this "feature" by accident.
>
> Also, how does it differ from C-x n w widening the info buffer?
It doesn't.
I suggest we get rid of this "feature".
> Ideally, I suppose an "all nodes" thing would show all nodes, but
> still prettied for viewing, something like a "view docs as one big
> HTML" translated web page, maybe with info commands working relative
> to the node the point is in, and that would be the difference, but it
> seems that g * is very similar to just turning off narrow at the
> moment.
Someone could work on this later.
I guess it would be useful, especially for small info manuals.
--
Bastien
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, (continued)
- RE: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Drew Adams, 2008/02/17
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Bastien Guerry, 2008/02/17
- RE: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Drew Adams, 2008/02/17
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Miles Bader, 2008/02/17
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/17
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node,
Bastien Guerry <=
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/18
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/18
- RE: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Drew Adams, 2008/02/18
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/19
- Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/19
- RE: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node, Drew Adams, 2008/02/19