From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:35:14 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200403151435.i2FEZEM06068@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <87ekru8z8v.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079363486 26331 80.91.224.253 (15 Mar 2004 15:11:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 15 16:11:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2tkI-0007EV-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:11:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2tkI-0003B7-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:11:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2tbT-00076l-MQ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:02:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2tad-0006pv-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:01:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2tNy-0002i2-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:48:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2tD5-0000Uo-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2FEajKt024504; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:36:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i2FEZEM06068; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:35:14 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 15 Mar 2004 08:34:47 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20505 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20505 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> BTW, is there a reason for not including references to SES and SMTP >> manuals into the `emacs/info/dir' file? > A simple omission; these manuals are relatively new additions. (It is > IMHO the job of the person who adds a new manual to update info/dir.) I never even noticed it since I locally removed info/dir a long time ago and let install-info add things for me. What is the exact function of emacs/info/dir? I thought it was some obsolete file. Back in September, I noticed that SES was not listed im my (dir)Top under Emacs. I tried adding SES to emacs/info/dir. It had no effect whatsoever. I noticed that other recent additions were not listed in emacs/info/dir. I then checked how they got added to (dir)Top. It was through Makefile.in. So I made changes to Makefile.in to include SES in the same way and sent a patch to emacs-devel, asking whether that was the right way to proceed (since I had never done this before) with cc to Jonathan Yavner, the author of SES. It was one of those prolonged periods that mail to emacs-devel apparently got redirected to /dev/null and after a while Jonathan asked me why I was not installing my patch. My patch definitely worked and I installed it as revision 1.283 to Makefile.in. That definitely seemed to work on my operating system, whereas adding something to emacs/info/dir did not seem to. Sincerely, Luc.