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Info-copy-current-node-name not exact enough

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Info-copy-current-node-name not exact enough
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:39:21 +0800

In GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.2)
c runs the command Info-copy-current-node-name
But it is not enough to distinguish some cases, e.g,. when
in (info "(dir) Top") we see
* SC: (emacs-22/sc).            Supercite lets you cite parts of messages
                                  you're replying to, in flexible ways.
* SC (emacs-snapshot): (emacs-snapshot/sc).
                                Supercite lets you cite parts of messages
                                  you're replying to, in flexible ways.

No matter which one we are in, C-u 0 c will just give
(info "(sc) Top"), so there's no command to remember the exact location.
Deeper down, same problem:
(info "(sc) The Built-in Header Rewrite Functions")

If there was a command that would give me "a link to send to my friends
who live on the same machine, that would zero them in to the exact page
of the two possibilities", then at least I can't find it in the menus.

Message #8 received at 3545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 3545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info-copy-current-node-name not exact enough
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:08:19 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> In GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.2)
> c runs the command Info-copy-current-node-name
> But it is not enough to distinguish some cases, e.g,. when
> in (info "(dir) Top") we see
> * SC: (emacs-22/sc).            Supercite lets you cite parts of messages
>                                   you're replying to, in flexible ways.
> * SC (emacs-snapshot): (emacs-snapshot/sc).
>                                 Supercite lets you cite parts of messages
>                                   you're replying to, in flexible ways.
>
> No matter which one we are in, C-u 0 c will just give
> (info "(sc) Top"), so there's no command to remember the exact location.
> Deeper down, same problem:
> (info "(sc) The Built-in Header Rewrite Functions")
>
> If there was a command that would give me "a link to send to my friends
> who live on the same machine, that would zero them in to the exact page
> of the two possibilities", then at least I can't find it in the menus.

Sorry, I don't follow you here.  The `c' commands always gives me the
node name, no matter what node I'm in.  Are you seeing something
different?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

Message #11 received at 3545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: larsi <at> gnus.org
Cc: 3545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info-copy-current-node-name not exact enough
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:18:59 +0800

> c runs the command Info-copy-current-node-name

LMI> Sorry, I don't follow you here.  The `c' commands always gives me the
LMI> node name, no matter what node I'm in.  Are you seeing something
LMI> different?

Maybe I thought the 'current node' was the one under the cursor, like in
dired... perhaps tweak the docstring...

Message #18 received at 3545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 3545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info-copy-current-node-name not exact enough
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:44:03 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> Maybe I thought the 'current node' was the one under the cursor, like in
> dired... perhaps tweak the docstring...

No, the current node is the one you're in.

I think the doc string is clear enough.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

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