Eli, On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:34 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Aleksey Midenkov <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:09:54 +0300 > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > What do you mean by "numbers"? I don't think the stand-alone Info > > reader was ever numbering menu items, if that's what you mean. > > > > Yes, it has numbers. Like I said it was in Hamm for sure (1998) probably > until Woody (2002). And then > > something has happened and numbers became useless asterisks. You can > note that 0-9 keys still work (but > > probably wrong). In case you didn't notice each page has unique address, > like "9.2 Specifying a Location", so > > you could quickly get into it by typing 92. Now it is buggy (for GDB > manual) as 9 gets you to page 8. I always > > used 353 to quickly get into "3.5.3 Shell Parameter Expansion" for Bash. > Now I can't do it because I don't > > remember this combination. > > These are chapter and section numbers. I still see them; don't you? > > No, I don't see them in menu items like on screenshot above. They were in places of asterisks. So how to make them back? > Indeed, typing "9 2" gets me to section 8.2, but that's because the > GDB manual has the first chapter "Summary" unnumbered. This is not an > issue with the Info reader, this is an issue with the GDB manual. > Ok, I know. -- All the best, Aleksey Midenkov @midenok
