give --index-search example on man page

2014-09-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
On the info man page, after info emacs buffers start at buffers node within emacs manual Please add info grub commands 'command-line and menu entry commands' badram info --index-search=badram grub start at badram node within grub manual So one

Bug#870439: refresh Texinfo version

2017-08-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: gv Version: 1:3.7.4-1+b1 X-Debbugs-CC: bug...@gnu.org, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: >> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> >> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.or

when there is no index file

2017-07-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Messages like user-error: No ‘file’ in index user-error: No ‘a’ in index would better be user-error: No Index file found. Or noting when reading the gv manual, i runs the command Info-index (found in Info-mode-map), ... Give an empty topic name to go to the Index node itself. OK I

Re: when there is no index file

2017-07-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
All I know is if I do (info "(gv) Top")^X^E i RET I end up on (info "(gv) GNU General Public License") here on Debian, gv: Installed: 1:3.7.4-1+b1 emacs25: Installed: 25.2+1-2

Re: Info pages should offer permalinks

2021-02-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "GS" == Gavin Smith writes: GS> but in any case this should be GS> directed towards a list for Emacs development (emacs-de...@gnu.org) as GS> that is where the development of Info mode is done. Please be sure to mention that fact somewhere in (info "(texinfo) Top") (info "(info) Top")

Info pages should offer permalinks

2021-02-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Let's say we are reading some INFO page, like (info "(gnus) Customizing Articles") We think "That's a great article. What's the https URL so I can share it with my friends?" So at the bottom of the article, there should be a "permalink" that one can copy, Indeed with permalinks, one

Re: sharing info pages via HTTP hyperlinks

2021-10-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Well currently the share method is: paste some words from the page into google and see if we can find the same page on the net. Now you have the URL to share. RP> Youʼre looking for 'Info-url-for-node' from Drew Adams' info+.el I'm just saying the software should expect people would want to

sharing info pages via HTTP hyperlinks

2021-10-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Let's say we are reading e.g., (info "(make) Instead of Execution") and want to share it with someone via a hyperlink. It would be nice if emacs / info etc. had a keystroke to copy https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Instead-of-Execution.html somehow.

makeinfo man page: say columns, not characters

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ man makeinfo --fill-column=NUM break Info lines at NUM characters (default 72). Say columns, not characters. E.g., there will be less characters if they are fullwidth characters. $ makeinfo --version texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.8

clean up left over html files

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
Here we see a second run of makeinfo --html has only updated the first file: $ ls -ogt -rw-r--r-- 1 1714 12-04 23:59 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 2757 12-04 23:49 First-Chapter.html -rw-r--r-- 1 2327 12-04 23:49 First-Section.html -rw-r--r-- 1 3422 12-04 23:49 Index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 2334 12-04 23:49

Weird paragraph breaks in makeinfo man page

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
Weird paragraph breaks in man page: $ man makeinfo -o, --output=DEST output to DEST. With split output, create DEST as a directory and put the output files there. With non-split output, if DEST is already a directory or ends with a /,

makeinfo man page: note --no-* toggles off

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
(info "(texinfo) Invoking texi2any") says '--no-number-footnotes' '--number-footnotes' Suppress automatic footnote numbering. By default, footnotes are numbered sequentially within a node, i.e., the current footnote number is reset to 1 at the start of each node. Yes, even I know

Mention cases when @noindent = @indent

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
Add a note to (info "(texinfo) @noindent") mentioning why $ echo -e @indent\\n\\n|makeinfo --plaintext $ echo -e @noindent\\n\\n|makeinfo --plaintext give the same output. (Don't tell me. I know why. Mention why in the document. Thanks.)

Mention workaround to change margins

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
(info "(texinfo) @pagesizes") says: To make more elaborate changes, such as changing any of the page margins, you must define a new command in 'texinfo.tex' or 'texinfo.cnf'. Mention a workaround: Before: $ perl -wle 'for(1..2){print "ABC " x 33, "\n";}'|makeinfo --plaintext ABC ABC

Always show source code of examples

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
(info "(texinfo) @format") says: This is an example of text written between a '@format' command and an '@end format' command. As you can see from this example, the '@format' command does not fill the text. OK, that's great. However it would take five minutes less to figure out if instead you

Mention how to unindent footnotes

2021-12-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
On (info "(texinfo) Footnote Styles") (info "(texinfo) @paragraphindent") mention how to unindent footnotes. $ makeinfo --plaintext --set-customization-variable paragraphindent=0 doesn't work. Or mention that 'sorry, it is impossible. Use sed or awk etc.'

Re: Mention how to unindent footnotes

2021-12-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "AMS" == Alfred M Szmidt writes: AMS>On AMS>(info "(texinfo) Footnote Styles") AMS>(info "(texinfo) @paragraphindent") AMS>mention how to unindent footnotes. AMS>$ makeinfo --plaintext --set-customization-variable paragraphindent=0 AMS>doesn't work. AMS> Your

Re: Mention cases when @noindent = @indent

2021-12-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
>>>>> "GS" == Gavin Smith writes: GS> On Sun, Dec 05, 2021 at 03:10:41AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Add a note to (info "(texinfo) @noindent") >> mentioning why >> >> $ echo -e @indent\\n\\n|makeinfo --plaintext >