From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David A. Cobb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 11:39:03 -0400 Organization: CoxNet User Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: <3D74D797.7000707@cox.net> References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net> <874rd7wuos.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031067527 3318 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 15:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mFlI-0000rA-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 17:38:40 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA21329; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA21260 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA21256 for turnbull@tux.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net (lakemtao01.cox.net [68.1.17.244]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA21252; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from cox.net ([68.14.72.20]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020903153919.JFUD1310.lakemtao01.cox.net@cox.net>; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:39:19 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020829 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1344 gmane.emacs.devel:7391 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7391 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >>>>>>"David" == David A Cobb writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > > David> I have no concept of anyone coercing a contributer in any > David> regard - it'll cost you at least $30.00/hr to coerce /me/. > >Oh, I think requiring revision of a patch because it has sucky >docstrings is both reasonable and coercive, and I doubt you would send >me a bill. More like, "good grief, how could _I_ forget that!" :-) > Yes, indeed! > David> But it would be a considerable good if they did contribute > David> Info pages > >Sure. But we can't require Info pages, especially as rms has >pronounced against it. > Ugh! What's the 'in' thing now? Didn't the GNU project /invent/ Info? >Yes, it's a shame that Swiss cheese has holes, but the >part that isn't holes is pretty tasty, no? > Tasty, yes! >But setting INFOPATH=/path/to/xemacs-packages/info:$INFOPATH >should do the trick (modulo our interpretation of dir as a cache >rather than something that should be authoritative). > Ah, I had it but had it wrong! I had noticed that Xemacs/info-mode rebuilds the directory when I didn't expect it. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. .