From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:28:14 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200209160002.g8G02Eb06228@f7.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032204978 28638 127.0.0.1 (16 Sep 2002 19:36:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17r1fL-0007RU-00 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:36:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17r2Io-0001Wb-00 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:17:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17r1fd-0003K6-00; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17r1Xc-0001Ao-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17r1Xa-0001Ac-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17r1Xa-0001AW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 17r1Xa-0008UA-00; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:28:14 -0400 Original-To: karl@freefriends.org In-reply-to: <200209160002.g8G02Eb06228@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7958 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7958 If each part of the menu were sorted alphabetically, would that help? We could make install-info do that. It already does. If we're talking about the Info dir file. It is not ordered alphabetically in my Info dir file. Is this a recent change in install-info? Maybe the problem is because I am using Debian. Meanwhile, there should be some exceptions to alphabetical order. For instance, in the Emacs section, the Emacs item should come first. This could be a general rule--an item whose name equals the name of the section comes first in that section. It might be good to add some other features for controlling the order, if you can figure out some useful ways to do this.