Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct

[Alan]

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:49:58 PM UTC-6, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:23:02 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Alan <wehmann_at_fnal.gov>
> > 
> > On Monday, November 17, 2014 10:41:06 AM UTC-6, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:11:12 -0800 (PST)
> > > > From: Alan <wehmann_at_fnal.gov>
> > > > Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:11:12 +0000
> > > > 
> > > > The documentation for @anchor in the texinfo Info file led me to 
> > > > believe that a cross reference to an anchor name would jump to that 
> > > > location in the info file.  I find this not to be the case.  The jump 
> > > > seems to be to the node location where the @anchor statement is found.
> > > 
> > > Which Emacs version do you use?  This works for me as you expected in
> > > Emacs 24.4.  I tried this in a manual other than perldoc, but I don't
> > > think there should be a difference.
> > 
> > I am using
> > 
> > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 
> > 2013-03-12 on bob.porkrind.org
> > 
> > I guess that means that I should investigate upgrading to 24.4 (to get the 
> > expected behavior of @anchor).
> 
> I'm not sure anything has changed in this area since 24.3.
> 
> Can you try with one of the manuals distributed with Emacs?

I upgraded to

GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 
2014-10-20 on builder10-9.porkrind.org

and the behavior of @anchor was the same.  I tested with perldoc-all.info, with 
a texinfo file where I keep a bunch of notes and with the texi file that I 
found for emacs-lisp-intro.

At the moment I'm stumped.