Re: automatic generation of @menu entries

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Sep 2021 03:38:24 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general
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On 12 Sep 2021 09:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 23:20:00 -0400
> > From: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> > 
> > i couldn't easily find an answer in the archives or manual, so feel free to
> > point me to docs or discussions that i missed.  surely this can't be a new
> > idea that i managed to come up with myself.  or there's a good reason that
> > i can't see as to why this is a bad idea.
> > 
> > having to manually maintain @menu entries in each @node is pretty tedious,
> > especially when @contents & @node are pretty well automated.  i grok that
> > there will probably be cases where people want to manually curate a menu,
> > but why can't we have an automatic default available ?
> 
> Not the answer you expected, but Emacs has a command that creates the
> menus for you.

i saw mention of that shortcut in the manual, but as you can imagine, that's
not terribly interesting to me.  i don't use emacs, and i'm not expecting
everyone else who helps maintain texinfo sources to use emacs.

but if there's an emacs shortcut to autogenerate/update, it implies that
making an actual texinfo command to do it isn't unreasonable ?
-mike

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