From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .info files
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:13:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d37a18rr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74nsm19c8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:01:27 -0400
>
> IIUC, a general solution was suggested for this
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg01182.html
I don't want to do that. I hoped the idea was dead.
> > But wasn't this discussion about visiting Info files in Info mode
> > automatically?
>
> Not just about that.
Well, for visiting Info files, I think recognizing the preamble is a
more robust way.
> For aesthetic reasons, it's nice for an info file to have an .info
> extension (IMO).
We could use "makeinfo --no-split" for all the Info manuals (we do
that for some now), and then the .info extension wouldn't be a problem
for MS-DOS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-14 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-12 14:38 .info files Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-12 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-12 16:49 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-12 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-12 21:58 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-13 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-19 10:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-05-04 6:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-04 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 19:16 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-04 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 21:33 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-04 23:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-05-05 0:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-06 1:24 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-06 2:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05 11:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-05-05 20:14 ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-06 2:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-08 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-08 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-17 13:34 ` Nix
2012-04-13 19:19 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-13 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-13 21:19 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 8:04 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-14 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 10:14 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-14 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 18:01 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-04-16 17:44 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-16 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 20:26 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-16 20:33 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 17:56 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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