CONTRIBUTE: Mention indexing new vars/commands in manual [was: Run occur command restricted to a region]

[Tino Calancha]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:11:11 +0900 (JST)
>> cc: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> 
>> I just noticed your commit df915775bc4ead095aa37d2b098de748e1821027
>> Now i understand that you mean the concept index.
>
> Not just the concept index: the variables should go into the variable
> indec and functions/commands into their index.  There are separate
> @cindex, @vindex, and @findex commands in Texinfo.
Do you think would be worth to mention briefly about this in CONTRIBUTE?
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>From caa8e6955e65f3bb45e816dcfc3dc66cdd0fde28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 18:55:00 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] * CONTRIBUTE (Documenting your changes): Index new
 vars/commands in manual.

---
 CONTRIBUTE | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index c12f0cc08d..49b8919f17 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -250,6 +250,12 @@ know it does not, mark the NEWS entry with "---".  If you 
know
 that *all* the necessary documentation updates have been made, mark
 the entry with "+++".  Otherwise do not mark it.
 
+If your change requires updating the manuals to document new
+functions/commands/variables/faces, then use the proper Texinfo
+command to index them; for instance, use @vindex for variables and
address@hidden for functions/commands.  For the full list of predefine indices, 
see
+http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Predefined-Indices.html
+
 For more specific tips on Emacs's doc style, see
 
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Documentation-Tips.html
 Use 'checkdoc' to check for documentation errors before submitting a patch.
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