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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: usr.gentoo@googlemail.com
Cc: 5658@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:37:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq2lgqos.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b8ac3ce.0710660a.2ece.ffffbb3d@mx.google.com> (usr gentoo's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:28:19 +0100")

usr.gentoo@googlemail.com writes:

> when visiting .info files in Emacs via find-file Emacs opens the file
> in the default major-mode instead of Emacs' info-mode.

I think it would be a bad idea to open in Info mode, since one
occasionally comes across plain text files with the .info extension.
Anyway, we have the `info-display-manual' command for this now.
Closing.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-08  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-28 19:28 bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer usr.gentoo
2010-03-02 21:11 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-03  6:05 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-03-03 19:30   ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-04  2:45     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-06 17:55       ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-04  7:10     ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-03-04 21:18       ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-05  5:29         ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-03-05 20:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-08  3:37 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-12-08  9:07   ` Eli Zaretskii

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