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Re: Info fails to find history.info


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Info fails to find history.info
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:27:45 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>     > Do users ever enter them?
>
>     I can't imagine a situation where users might want to enter them.
>
> In that case, there is no reason to keep them.
>
> Since `toc' pertains to the Current Info file, it makes no sense
> for that to be treated like a file of any kind.  If anything,
> it is more like a virtual node.  It could have a node name
> such as :toc: which can't really appear in an Info file.

Supporting virtual nodes looks like a new feature.  Are you sure this is
necessary for the next release?

> A phony node nane is not logically ideal for the history,
> but maybe it would work.

Do you mean a history node with references to nodes visited only in the
current manual?  As a user, I certainly wouldn't like this.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/





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