From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu>,
11168-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11168: All headers but one missing in main *Info* buffer
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:24:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmXQOh+ue0piNb+9hB4GXSUVjiKz3PC+46zmHw-5faJxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmndi30iH8A7cXirQULMVHXPZR1qafzZu3k8NVMRwLxjcQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:06:04 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>>> > 2. `Info-streamline-headings' should be a user option, not a defvar.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that this is something that people will commonly want to
>>> customize.
>>
>> Why not? (And why must an option be something that's
>> _commonly_ modified by users?)
>
> I just don't think it's all that useful.
>
>> In this bug report you have a user asking about the
>> format/content of Info, with no way to find out about
>> what's happening, without filing a bug.
>
> But that was because there had just been a change, many moons ago.
> Right? Or have we seen many questions since?
>
> IMO, Info-streamline-headings is fine for what it's trying to do, which
> AFAICT is mainly to consolidate all Emacs stuff under one heading.
>
> But it seems to me that the GNU project/Info or whoever should rather
> make sure that the organization of headlines makes sense. It seems
> pretty chaotic on my machine, and different projects seem to follow
> various different conventions. So I'd personally rather users filed bug
> reports to the respective projects, or to makeinfo, or against the GNU
> coding standards or something.
No further comments within 4 weeks, so I'm closing this bug.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-25 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-04 7:13 bug#11168: All headers but one missing in main *Info* buffer Richard Stanton
2012-04-04 7:48 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-04 13:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-29 18:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-29 19:34 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-30 1:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-25 10:24 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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