Re: Texinfo: mark environment and mark section/node

> From: angeli@...
> To: vincent.b.1@...
> CC: auctex@...; auctex-devel@...
> Subject: Re: Texinfo: mark environment and mark section/node
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 15:54:35 +0200
>
> As mentioned in our discussion last June, it is better to talk about
> development topics on the development list. So I'm crossposting this to
> auctex-devel and setting a Mail-Followup-To.
>
> * Vincent Belaïche (2011-05-17) writes:
>
> > Quite some time ago I had submitted a contribution to have mark
> > environment and mark section commands for Texinfo also. I made an update
> > of AUCTeX recently and I realized that they are still not in the CVS
> > tree...
> >
> > I attach again the patch made at that time, but certainly the diff was
> > relative to some outdated version of tex-info.el.
>
> This patch is an early one. The most recent one should be from June 24,
> 2010.
>
> > Sorry, but I do not remember what was the outcome of discussion that we
> > had at that time.
>
> The threads can be found at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2010-06/threads.html
> and
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2010-07/threads.html
>
> > I rememeber that you questionned the use of `C-c .'
> > and `C-c *' keybindings, but I thought that my contribution was fine all
> > the same because no alternative keybinding was proposed.
>
> Looking at the last messages in the discussion we had, the main issue I
> still had with the patch was that `Texinfo-mark-section' marks both
> sections and nodes. It would be better if there were two separate
> functions for these functionalities.
>
> --
> Ralf