Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:23:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alan <wehmann@fnal.gov>
> 
> On Monday, November 17, 2014 10:41:06 AM UTC-6, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:11:12 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: Alan <wehmann_at_fnal.gov>
> > > Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:11:12 +0000
> > > 
> > > The documentation for @anchor in the texinfo Info file led me to believe 
> > > that a cross reference to an anchor name would jump to that location in 
> > > the info file.  I find this not to be the case.  The jump seems to be to 
> > > the node location where the @anchor statement is found.
> > 
> > Which Emacs version do you use?  This works for me as you expected in
> > Emacs 24.4.  I tried this in a manual other than perldoc, but I don't
> > think there should be a difference.
> 
> I am using
> 
> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2013-03-12 
> on bob.porkrind.org
> 
> I guess that means that I should investigate upgrading to 24.4 (to get the 
> expected behavior of @anchor).

I'm not sure anything has changed in this area since 24.3.

Can you try with one of the manuals distributed with Emacs?