GNU bug report logs - #3545
Info-copy-current-node-name not exact enough

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:45:09 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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?

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