Re: info

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Luc Teirlinck wrote:

>        * Acknowledgments::     Major contributors to GNU Emacs.
> 
>        Indexes (nodes containing large menus)
>        * Key Index::           An item for each standard Emacs key sequence.
> 
>    Which menu item would you like Info to select if point is on
>    "Indexes", and how should Info tell this case from the one that
>    started this thread?
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to answer this question.  The default chosen by m is
> `Acknowledgments'.  This is arbitrary but predictable.  Everything
> between two leading *'s is the previous *'s territory.

I believe this arebitrary predictability is not very useful, except in 
those cases where the text between the two *'s is short.  As other 
examples in this thread show, sometimes this approach is simply wrong.