Re: Annotating Info Pages?

[thierry . volpiatto]

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>    Hello Everyone,
>>
>>    I understand that there's a way to bookmark an info file so that I can
>>    easily reference things that interest me later on.  Is there also a
>>    way to annotate info files such that I add my own little notes along
>>    the way in a browsable or at least visible fashion from within the
>>    Info file?
>>
>>    Thanks in advance!
>>
>> While doing `e' in an *info* buffer and installing ipa.el are something
>> to look into, Bookmarks is part of Emacs and does a simple job in a
>> single separate .emacs.bmk file, or as many .bmk files as you'd like to
>> have.  Bookmarks may also be annotated.
>>
>> I'm interested in why ipa.el is preferable to Bookmarks.

ipa.el is for writing annotation in files and bookmarks to bookmark file
names or directory name.

So that's two things completely differents.

> Actually, I don't know much about either option.  I figured that
> Bookmarks would allow me to mark a spot and give it a name or some
> brief description so that I could get back to it quickly.  By
> annotating I mean writing extensive notes and attaching them to a
> given paragraph or word or something along those lines.  If I can do
> that with Bookmarks then that's a nice win.  Probably at some point
> today I'll read up on both.  I'll send out my decision for those who
> are interested.

So i i said above, bookmarks are not designed to do what you want.

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