From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:47:53 -0700 Message-ID: <008c01c9d01e$44b8fc60$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <87hbzzs7ax.fsf@gmail.com> <8363gfe2r1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241815724 31442 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2009 20:48:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 20:48:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Karl Berry' , 'emacs-devel' To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'Vincent_Bela=EFche'?=" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 22:48:34 2009 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 1M2Wzg-0003xg-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 22:48:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2Wzg-0006rf-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:48:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2WzD-0006Uw-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2WzA-0006Qq-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41711 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2Wz9-0006Qf-Nb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:55043) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2Wz9-0002Ij-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n48KmBql030465 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 8 May 2009 20:48:12 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt006.oracle.com (abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n48Klqhk026113; Fri, 8 May 2009 20:47:52 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.65.228) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 08 May 2009 13:47:50 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcnQHN6oCpNpE5yMQ+OLbdiMcRsQYwAAGo+g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010202.4A049A77.0112:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:110785 Archived-At: > > I have a different question: how likely/common is > > it for people to find *.info file and to use install-info on them? > > Well just to give some examples, I have downloaded the info > file of Bash and that of Texinfo on my machine and I have > installed them with install-info by hand. I also installed > all the manuals that were coming with the MinGW tool-chain > with install-info. I am also writing myself 3 manuals for > emacs extension packages (one is for emacs-template which > is still under discussion with Christoph Wedler, and the > two other are for extension packages I am developping > myself), and I had also to install them with install-info. > > I recognize that it is not that often, but it happens... If you recognize that, how about simply customizing `dired-guess-shell-alist-user'?