From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:18:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83bmhos2qd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86bmhyk2qy.fsf@zoho.com> <87mv1ia0et.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <86a7xhgnag.fsf@zoho.com> <86po6beoxh.fsf@zoho.com> <86h8rmdhie.fsf@zoho.com> <861sim4903.fsf@zoho.com> <87zi59616g.fsf@mbork.pl> <86vafx1og8.fsf@zoho.com> <86mv18z4xp.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516479485 24950 195.159.176.226 (20 Jan 2018 20:18:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:18:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 20 21:18:01 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eczaH-0005R1-3A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:17:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eczcH-0002df-2c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:19:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eczbj-0002d8-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:19:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eczbf-0002wQ-1P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eczbe-0002wI-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1365 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eczbd-0005G3-CH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:19:14 -0500 In-reply-to: <86mv18z4xp.fsf@zoho.com> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:49:22 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115805 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:49:22 +0100 > > The "by hand" phrasing is where the confusion > begins because it seems to imply there is > a better way to "edit" them. But to me it seems > totally backward to edit the result of > compilation and I don't think I ever did that > because wouldn't not only update but also > recompilation overwrite the edits? > > In general one should edit the source! and here > one could simply keep a text file with any > extra material. That command exists because Info files predate the makeinfo program; the first Info files were made by hand, because makeinfo didn't yet exist.