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Re: Annotating Info Pages?


From: Richard Riley
Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages?
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:03:42 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:

> Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
>
>     [I am the new maintainer of ipa.el]
>
>     ipa means In Place Annotation. You write your annotations right
>     where the point is. The annotation is then displayed just right
>     where it is.
>
>     In the other hand, bookmark annotations are shown in another
>     buffer. I feel less comfortable to use them for the exact reason.
>
>     Maybe, in a near future, both could be merged since, in the end,
>     the goal are pretty the same: have point in a
>     buffer/file/whatever be bookmarked and/or be annotated.
>
>     I hope I was clear in my explanations.
>
> Thank you, Xavier, yep clear and just like Richard was saying, make it
> sound well worth trying.  I have a system laden with a `WORKSHEET' in the
> directory of each project.  As stream-of-consciousness as the worksheets
> are, and hence profuse with elipses, I have never been able to afford
> myself the use of brackets.  Now it seems I may.
>
> And sorry about the `agression' earlier, it was an infantile wish to do
> away with some frustrating communication.
>

I'm literally gobsmacked ....


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