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bug#50467: Could :properties have index entries in the elisp manual?
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#50467: Could :properties have index entries in the elisp manual? |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:00:00 +0200 |
[Sorry, I missed replying to these below points so I'll do that here.]
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> One problem here is that use of the colon character in index entries
> should be avoided, as some Info readers could get confused by that
> (the colon is a special character in Info file format).
How important is this consideration? In other words, how serious of a
breakage are we risking? For example, if it is just that the index
entries won't work in other info readers, that seems acceptable to me.
> Also, most of the keywords are, or should be, found by using their
> "family name". For example, for faces we have "face attributes" in
> the index.
This is the workflow that I wanted to avoid. For example, I might not
know which section ":align-to" belongs to, which means that the
fastest way for me to find out is to search the entire manual. This
is less convenient than typing 'i :a TAB'.