Re: info-lookup-symbol

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rehceb Rotkiv <rehceb@no.spam.plz>
> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:05:40 -0500
> 
> > But the _real_ fix is to complain to the authors of the Python manual:
> 
> Then I would have to complain to a whole lot of authors, as identical 
> indices seem to be common practice!

It may be common practice, but it's bad practice nonetheless.

> On a quick look, I also found them in the Elisp and Bashref manuals.

The ELisp manual has 9 such occurrences out of 4000 index entries.
But thanks for pointing this out, I will fix them all for the next
release.

> However this is handled, it would be useful to have a function in info-
> lookup-symbol that jumps to the next matching index (similar to "," in 
> "i" = Info-index), because often there are multiple relevant entries for 
> one symbol, like e.g. "some_item (definition)" and "some_item (syntax)", 
> that one would typically want to consult successively.

I agree.  Please feel free to suggest this on emacs-devel@gnu.org.