Re: texinfo mode frustrations

Hi, I'm getting really frustrated by the way the texinfo mode works, and I was wondering if it's only me that has these problems. Essentially I try to use the texinfo mode to update all the nodes in my document. The basic pattern I follow is to outline the general structure of the document first, and then start working on each individual chapter. Each chapter has its own sections, subsections and so on. At the time of outlining the structure of the document I don't necessarily know all the section names. So I find myself very often in need for introducing a new section in between two others. I'd like to use the texinfo mode to automatically update the node pointers, using the texinfo-every-node-update and texinfo-all-menus-update. However this seems to not work as expected. For example it forgets to add pointers to the top node, and sometimes even to the next or previous node. Even if I explicitly write them, the next time I run the command it will remove them. So what I ended up doing is not use the command altogether, and editing the node pointers manually. Very unproductive! Needless to say, when I run such a document file through makeinfo or texinfo, I get tons of complains about missing node pointers. Anybody else seeing this, or am I doing something stupid here?