From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .info files Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:13:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83d37a18rr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838vhz2vnq.fsf@gnu.org> <8362d23ih1.fsf@gnu.org> <87hawmage9.fsf@gnu.org> <83sjg61xp8.fsf@gnu.org> <87d37afwmi.fsf@gnu.org> <83obqu1rir.fsf@gnu.org> <74nsm19c8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334427385 26730 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2012 18:16:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 14 20:16:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ7WI-0004rI-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:16:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ7WI-0005rB-3v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36187) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ7WE-0005qW-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ7WD-00025j-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ7WA-00025M-LK; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M2H00E00EO76M00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:15:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.57.204]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M2H00DJREQ4LAD0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:15:45 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <74nsm19c8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149662 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Chong Yidong , 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.