Re: info --index not finding all indexed entries

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 01:39:30AM CEST:
> As I wrote Ralf separately ... this
> omitting-common-prefix-for-better-sorting thing is pretty much the valid
> reason I've ever been able to see for having separate indexes.
> Otherwise, it's just a pain for users to have a bunch of different
> places to look, assuming knowledge may not have.  Again, especially for
> the printed manual.

I understand that having separate indexes may not be useful in a printed
version of the manual, but I certainly find them helpful in online PDF,
HTML, and info output, because just searching for a name in the index
(which I do with the search function of the file viewer, not manually)
already provides me with information about the type of the indexed
thing.  YMMV.

>  (I looked just now, and the Autoconf manual is even
> worse than Emacs in this regard -- nine indexes!  Yikes!)

Yes, the Autoconf manual makes use of the prefix thing.

> I could imagine fancy/obscure new features to specify the common prefix,
> and then info --index could apply the prefix, but ... anyway ...

That would make collapsing the indexes in Autoconf easier, but I'd still
probably prefer to do it just for DVI/PS output.

Thanks,
Ralf