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23.1.50; Emacs Manual Node Persistency Issues

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "Xah Lee" <xah <at> xahlee.org>
Subject: bug#4089: closed (Re: bug#4089: 23.1.50; Emacs Manual Node
 Persistency Issues)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:33:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#4089: 23.1.50; Emacs Manual Node Persistency Issues

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 4089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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).

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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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