> > If I now press `i :', info should handle this as `i <colon>'
>
> That's an interesting idea, but it will require changes in display
> code, in addition to the index-searching commands (because you will
> want the user to see a `:', not a "<colon>", when the index entry is
> displayed, like when I look through the Index node manually, or when
> the index entry is echoed in the echo area).
No, I really suggest that if you press `:', you get and see `<colon>'.
This is similar to seeing `<prior>' while pressing the PgUp key in
Emacs.
The produced info files shouldn't contain `:' any more, so no special
handling is necessary. With other words, entering the sequence `i
<colon>' is really equivalent to `i :'.
There are alreaady postfixes <1>, <2>, etc. for references, so the
user is already accustomed to the <...> notation.
> Also, the mappings should be somehow made known to the Info reader,
> if we indeed make it open-ended like you suggest.
What about a small extension to the info file format, which could
recognize at the very beginning something like the following section:
Keymap Table
: <colon>
. <period>
End Keymap Table
Shouldn't be too hard to implement IMHO.
Werner
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