GNU bug report logs - #4089
23.1.50; Emacs Manual Node Persistency Issues

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Reported by: "Xah Lee" <xah <at> xahlee.org>

Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:05:07 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: "Xah Lee" <xah <at> xahlee.org>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.1.50; Emacs Manual Node Persistency Issues
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:56:47 -0700

some issues with emacs manual persistency.

Info Node Persistency

... In emacs 22, there's this node:

(info "(emacs)Transient Mark")

but it does not exit in emacs 23's manual.

Shouldn't the manual nodes be persistant across versions, e.g. providing 
redirect when node changed?

As a pratical matter, this means now i have to search my emacs publications 
to fix the nodes. A task that's not particularly trivial. This applies to 
any publication on emacs that reference to the manual by node.

This is a problem with Python's documentation too. thinking about this, 
actually i don't know if there are any manual that:

   * (1) Provide a computable reference to the chapter/sections.
   * (2) Maintain this on different versions of the manual.

However, since emacs does (1) already, it's easy to do (2) too.

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GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) of 2009-06-30 on LENNART-69DE564 
(patched)

 Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:35:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Added tag(s) wontfix. Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:35:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Reply sent to Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:33:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 4089-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4089: 23.1.50; Emacs Manual Node Persistency Issues
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:30:12 -0500

I don't see any prospect of this being implemented. I am closing this
(it was marked "wontfix" some time ago).
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:24:16 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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