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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: What does "which see" mean in documentation?
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Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 21:55:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 17 21:55:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 18:27:22 EDT
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: INFO has "which see" command

In article <629@umix.cc.umich.edu> emv@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
> What you're really after is a mark embedded in the text of your document
> that says "if you want to find out more about this, look elsewhere" and
> which provides a way to get to that "elsewhere" spot automagically.

	INFO (a popular emacs-based hierarchical documentation browser) has
just that.  All you do is insert in your document a magic cookie that looks
like *Note foo: bar.  The reader simply has to type "Ffoo" to jump to the
document node "bar".  Typing an "L" (for "last") gets you back to where you
were.  Think of it as subroutine call and return while reading a document.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016