Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing‏

["Vincent Belaïche" <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>]

Hello,

I have found a way to get rid of the `for', and also to be less bash
specific. This way the guess will work even for old Windows versions.

I just wrote it as follows:

(list "\\.info$" 
		      '(concat "install-info \"" file "\" \"" 
			       (file-name-directory file) 
			       "dir\" " 
			       (cond 
				((eq system-type 'windows-nt) "&& Rem ")
				(t "; # "))))


The trick is:

1) I get the directory in Lisp (note that I need no convert filename and
directory to system dependent syntax because install-info accepts `/' as
a file separator)

2) I append a tailing "&& Rem " so that the argument, say foo.info, that
is appended after the command name is ignored.

The full command line is then

install-info some/directory/foo.info some/directory/dir && Rem some/directory/foo.info

This "&& Rem " is replaced by "; # " if the system is not window. So
that the fill command line will be

install-info some/directory/foo.info some/directory/dir ; # some/directory/foo.info


Just a remark: if the dired mode could interprete some list (where CMD
is a string):

(litterally CMD)

As a command CMD to which the file name does not have to be appended,
then there would not be any need to cheat the OS with the tailing
comment (Rem or #). The guess displayed to the user would also be nicer.

   Vincent.