Permuted indices

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1235 at s8.Morgan.COM> amull at Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
> More useful? Not in my experience. A permuted index is a good way to
> inflate the number of references you have to read through to get your
> hit.

How do you get this? It reduces the number of references you have to look
up. When I see "trees: 134, 145, 279, 394" I have to look up all four
places to be sure I'm not going to miss the reference I need. If it
said:

looking for files in a directory  tree		134
search           balanced binary  tree		145
diseases                   apple  tree		279
a skunk safely            how to  tree		394

I know exactly where to go.

Are we even referring to the same thing, here? The keyword in context index
is so far superior to the conventional index I keep a copy of the *3BSD*
manual around so I know I'll be have a usable manual handy. Even for System V
it's easier to look things up in the wrong manual, if I don't have the right
index!
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