From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9891@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:52:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4nyme31q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hb2mmmuq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:54:21 +0200")
>> I think I'm beginning to understand: the problem is that the "top-level
>> dir" is used in two very different contexts:
>> - for interactive use, where it should be shortish and avoid redundancy.
>> - for non-interactive use, typically to make `info' emulate `man', where
>> the toplevel `dir' is abused as an index. This only works for
>> specially built `dir' files and I don't see it used in Debian,
>> for instance.
>> The Info-dir-remove-duplicates is clearly meant for the first use and
>> I think that's the most important use, so if we want to make it handle
>> the second case we'll have to make sure it doesn't hurt the first.
> What would constitute "hurting the first use case"?
An example of hurting the first use case would be to keep "* GDB: (gdb)"
along with "* Gdb: (gdb)".
> I intend to make a change whereby the header lines we maintain on
> Emacs's info/dir file are not deleted (by removing ("Emacs . "Emacs)
> from Info-streamline-headers) -- would that "hurt", and if so, why?
I added that code because I bumped into different dir entries which used
slightly different header lines for fundamentally the same purpose.
E.g. my current /usr/share/info/dir contains:
Emacs
* Ada mode: (emacs-21/ada-mode).
The GNU Emacs mode for editing Ada.
[...]
Emacs editing modes
* Ada mode: (emacs-23/ada-mode).
Emacs mode for editing and compiling Ada code.
[...]
Emacs network features
[...]
* TRAMP: (emacs-23/tramp). Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocol
Emacs remote file access via rsh and rcp.
[...]
GNU Emacs
* TRAMP: (emacs-22/tramp). Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocol
GNU Emacs remote file access via rsh and rcp.
And of course, between these headings appear some others that aren't
related to Emacs. It's a pretty messy part of the Texinfo
infrastructure and would deserve to be improved.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-02 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-27 19:15 bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory Dani Moncayo
2011-10-28 16:38 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-28 17:39 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-29 18:23 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-29 18:55 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-29 19:16 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-29 20:41 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-31 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-29 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-29 21:19 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-31 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-31 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-01 9:29 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-01 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-01 22:31 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-02 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-02 10:01 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-02 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 10:07 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-02 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-02 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-02 14:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-02 17:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-02 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-11-05 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 13:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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