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/ directory in CVS Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:57:20 +0300 Message-ID: References: <13lkcvcgr5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186142285 24583 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2007 11:58:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:58:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 13:58:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGvn8-0003U7-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:58:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGvn8-0000A1-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGvn4-000098-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGvn3-00008S-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGvn2-00008P-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGvn1-0000Fv-M5; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-197-78.inter.net.il [83.130.197.78]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id DGV82562 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:57:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:27:42 -0400) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75987 Archived-At: > Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:27:42 -0400 > > > If we generate dir (with install-info), the order of menu items there > > will be alphabetical, not the order we want. > > I hope someday we can fix this limitation so that `dir' can really be > auto-generated. You mean, change install-info? or add some feature to Emacs to do that instead of install-info? For the former, you are welcome to suggest a different design to Karl (cc'ed). In any case, I'm curious to know how could we order the entries in a repeatable way that uses an order other than alphabetic, especially when it adds new entries.