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Subject: Poll
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Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 12:30:19 EDT
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From: tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)

   Date: Mon, 1 Sep 86 06:55:33 EDT
   From: rms (Richard M. Stallman)

   Right now the Emacs manual has four separate indices for four
   categories of things: the concept index, the function and command
   name index, the variable index and the key index.

   Do you think that it would be better to combine these into one index?

The Key index should remain separate.  It's entries would fall into a
few long contiguous groups in a combined index, so it might as well be
separate.

The other three should be combined, as long as each entry has a tag on
it to distinguish it's type.  Using typeface for this purpose would be
ok (except for those without access to high-typographic-quality
printers), or a parenthesized code [e.g.
    (i)  for idea or info
    (f)  function
    (v)  variable
]