Subject: Re: bug#27624: Implement Info-number-index-items

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:05:19 +0300

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> 	<[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 02:12:49 +0800
> 
> Don't you think it is weird for an Info page to say
> 
>   5.17 Android shell setup hints
>   ==============================
> 
> but then in its parent index, one only sees
> 
>   Configuring TRAMP for use
> 
>   * Remote shell setup::          Remote shell setup hints.
>   * Android shell setup::         Android shell setup hints.
>   * Auto-save and Backup::        Auto-save and Backup.

The former is the section name, the latter the node names.

> Therefore I hereby propose there be created
> 
>   (defcustom Info-number-index-items 'full
>     "'basic means to put the subsection number in front of index items.
>     'full means to put the full index number in front of index items...

These are not index items, these are menus which are part of the
manual.

And I don't think this report has anything to do with Emacs, you
should report this to the Texinfo mailing list.