From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ec9523a: Add a keybinding to the help menu to display manuals Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:43:44 +0300 Message-ID: <2B40CB5F-0EDB-4909-9A21-395C9A3B0218@gnu.org> References: <20201013010930.20500.91773@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20201013010931.ABE62209AA@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87k0vs4eun.fsf@rub.de> <87h7qwynwj.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32527"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android Cc: Stephen Berman , Stefan Kangas To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen , Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 09:45:25 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kSxwy-0008Mn-KK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58552 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSxwx-0002hZ-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 03:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSxvW-00023P-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 03:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45797) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSxvV-0005Kr-ML; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 03:43:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:4df7:0:c9a7::1] (port=47066) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kSxvR-0000Ms-Fy; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 03:43:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h7qwynwj.fsf@gnus.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257713 Archived-At: On October 15, 2020 10:00:12 AM GMT+03:00, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: >=20 > >> files under info/ end in "=2Einfo"=2E Are there known cases of > >> extensionless info files that do not correspond to a file ending in > >> "=2Einfo" or "=2Einfo=2Egz" (or another compression suffix)? If not, > then > >> removing that bit of the code will prevent the current false > positives=2E > > > > It used to be common to have Info files with names like `foo`, > `foo-1`, > > `foo-2`, =2E=2E=2E Splitting Info files has gotten out of fashion due= to > the > > growing size of RAM, and the use of a `=2Einfo` extension has grown > > a lot too=2E Maybe we could start assuming that all those files > nowadays > > have a `=2Einfo` extension? >=20 > I had a look in >=20 > /usr/share/info/ >=20 > here, and it looks like they all have =2Einfo in their names=2E I have in my /usr/share/info gobs of old Info files without any extension= =2E So please let's not make any changes that would exclude them from comp= letion by this command=2E If someone has files in Info-related directories that are not Info files, = they should get their act together=2E And if we do that on ELPA, let's get= our act together, instead of making breaking changes like that=2E