GNU bug report logs - #23142
25.1.50; Kind of duplicated lines in info TOC

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Johan Claesson <johanclaesson <at> bredband.net>

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:51:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 25.1.50

Fixed in version 27.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #13 received at 23142 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 23142 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Johan Claesson <johanclaesson <at> bredband.net>
Subject: Re: bug#23142: 25.1.50; Kind of duplicated lines in info TOC
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 02:23:57 +0300

> Does anybody know what the reasoning behind adding these seemingly
> doubled lines is?

Sometimes section names are more informative than node names.
For example, open the Emacs manual and compare node vs section names:

node names    vs    section names

Basic::             Basic Editing Commands

Display::           Controlling the Display

International::     International Character Set Support

Maintaining::       Maintaining Large Programs

Dired::             Dired, the Directory Editor

etc.

Most of the time short node names are unintelligible
without explanation provided by section names.

Also section names provide additional help in logical division
of the manual, e.g.

  Important Text-Changing Commands

  Major Structures of Emacs

  etc.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 300 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.