From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master ec9523a: Add a keybinding to the help menu to display manuals
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:51:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8l3y4ut.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0vs4eun.fsf@rub.de> (message from Stephen Berman on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:33:52 +0200)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:33:52 +0200
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> And it's even worse if Info-directory-list includes directories that
> contain lots of extensionless files that aren't info files, such as, for
> example, the AUCTeX package from GNU ELPA, which contains such files as
> ChangeLog, COPYING, GNUmakefile, etc., all of which are listed in the
> *Completions* buffer, and if you choose one of them, it gets visited in
> Info mode, which throws the user-error: "No such node or anchor: Top".
Why do we use that directory for Info files? It sounds like a royal
mess; info.el was never meant to face these problems.
We have a docs directory, where we keep Texinfo sources of the
documentation; why not keep the Info files there? Then we'd only need
to avoid *.texi files as completion candidates (which is a good idea
anyway).
Alternatively, we could, of course, have a list of files in the
package's main directory that need to be skipped when looking for the
Info files (ChangeLog, COPYING, GNUmakefile, *.el, *.elc, etc.). But
I think using a separate directory is much cleaner.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-15 13:51 UTC|newest]
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2020-10-14 19:06 ` master ec9523a: Add a keybinding to the help menu to display manuals Stefan Kangas
2020-10-14 22:33 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-15 1:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-15 7:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 7:34 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-15 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-15 9:00 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-15 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-16 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-16 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-18 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-18 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-16 4:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 6:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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