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Re: Info enhancements
From: |
Luc Teirlinck |
Subject: |
Re: Info enhancements |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:56:44 -0600 (CST) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Can give some bad surprises, like typing `f' followed by a reference
> one is seeing on the screen and the reader going to a "closer"
> off-screen reference of the same name.
Does this really happen in practice? That is, can you really create a
situation where an off-screen reference wins?
Yes. In the `Entry' node of the following file, put point at the
start of the line containing the first of the series of a's. Do:
M-0 C-l.
The address@hidden, , , dir}.' is now out of view. We do `f' and see:
Follow xref (Top):
If we accept the default (or type Top), we go to (dir)Top, an
off-screen reference, whereas address@hidden, Top, , elisp}.' is visible.
===File ~/experiment.texi===================================
\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@comment %**start of header
@setfilename experiment.info
@settitle An experiment.
@comment %**end of header
@node Top
@top Top
@menu
* name: entry. description.
@end menu
@node entry
@chapter Entry
This node is called @samp{entry}
@xref{Top}. @xref{Top, , , dir}.
a
a
a
a
a
@xref{Top, Top, , elisp}.
@bye
============================================================
Resulting .info file:
===File ~/experiment.info===================================
This is experiment.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.6 from
experiment.texi.
File: experiment.info, Node: Top, Next: entry, Up: (dir)
Top
***
* Menu:
* name: entry. description.
File: experiment.info, Node: entry, Prev: Top, Up: Top
Entry
*****
This node is called `entry' *Note Top::. *Note Top: (dir)Top.
a
a
a
a
a
*Note Top: (elisp)Top.
Tag Table:
Node: Top81
Node: entry201
End Tag Table
============================================================
- Re: Info enhancements, (continued)
- Re: Info enhancements, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/12/07
- Re: Info enhancements, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/12/07
- Re: Info enhancements, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/07
- Re: Info enhancements, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/12/07
- Re: Info enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2003/12/07
- Re: Info enhancements, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/09
- Re: Info enhancements,
Luc Teirlinck <=
- Re: Info enhancements, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/10
- Re: Info enhancements, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/12/09
- Re: Info enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2003/12/05
- Re: Info enhancements, Richard Stallman, 2003/12/07
- Re: Info enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2003/12/07
- Re: Info enhancements, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Miles Bader, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2003/12/08
- Re: Info enhancements, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/08