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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:34:40 -0500
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, CBFalconer wrote:
> 
> > Why not make one of the menu entries be to a complete alphabetical
> > cross-index?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand your suggestion.  Can you give an example?
> 
> What confuses me is the ``one of the menu entries'' part.  It sounds like
> you suggest to have a single menu entry followed by an alphabetical
> listing of the packages.  If so, that listing will be long, and without
> links to the relevant menu entries, which the reader can follow, it would be
> almost useless.
> 
> The reason I doubt such an alphabetic listing will be of marginal utility
> is that Info readers already have features which should make that listing
> unnecessary.  For example, typing "m a" and then hitting TAB twice should
> pop up a list of all menu entries which begin with `a' or `A'.
> 
> That's why I asked in this thread about the problems the alphabetical
> listing is supposed to solve.

I wasn't thinking of the items in the menu, but the items in the
sub-menus, or even the items findable via apropos' interminable
search (or at least a subset thereof).  Something like what I can
get from grep now:

[1] c:\c\malloc>grep -l profile \djgpp\info\*.i*
File \djgpp\info\gprof.inf:
File \djgpp\info\gprof.i3:
File \djgpp\info\gprof.i2:
File \djgpp\info\gprof.i1:
File \djgpp\info\libc.inf:
File \djgpp\info\flex.inf:
File \djgpp\info\gcc.i1:
File \djgpp\info\gcc.i12:
File \djgpp\info\gcc.i17:
File \djgpp\info\gcc.i24:
File \djgpp\info\gcc.i3:
File \djgpp\info\gcc.i30:
File \djgpp\info\gcc.i6:
File \djgpp\info\gdb.i2:
File \djgpp\info\bash.inf:
File \djgpp\info\djgppfaq.inf:
File \djgpp\info\gawk.inf:
File \djgpp\info\gmp.inf:

In fact, maybe I should alias apropos to that anyhow :-)  info
would still be grinding.

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