From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Notes-Mode package problem (was dir(Top) is in French ?!?) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:47:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83zjj5mgu1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86vbtup2ko.fsf@gmail.com> <8661lujcok.fsf@gmail.com> <861twij9ws.fsf@gmail.com> <86bnvl5puw.fsf@gmail.com> <86a9b571vp.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398710896 26639 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2014 18:48:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:48:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 20:48:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Weqb3-0005PC-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:48:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Weqb2-0003KV-SN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Weqac-0003C8-H6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:47:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeqaQ-0002zn-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:63206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeqaP-0002zJ-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N4R007008615Y00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:47:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N4R007YI8733W30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:47:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86a9b571vp.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97431 Archived-At: > From: David Masterson > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:19:38 -0700 > > > Every dir file is supposed to have that "header". > > And the $64K question -- why? Because you never know which one will be the first in the order the Info reader finds them. Directories can get reshuffled, both on disk and in the INFOPATH variable's value; new directories can be added; manuals and their dir files can be deleted and added; etc. etc. > You don't see the problem that I'm talking about here? If there is a problem, it's not an Emacs problem. That's how Texinfo, and in particular its localization, was designed. (Personally, I think that basing the contents of an Info document on the locale in which it was _produced_ is madness, but that's me, and I'm not talking for the Texinfo project.) IOW, I suggest that you take this up with the Texinfo maintainers. This problem cannot possibly be solved by Emacs, even if you pretend that the Emacs Info reader is the only one that is of interest.