bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> when visiting .info files in Emacs via find-file Emacs opens the file in the
>>> default major-mode instead of Emacs' info-mode. I suggest therefore to add the
>>> following default-association:
>>>
>>>  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . info))
>> The value of major-mode in an Info buffer is Info-mode:
>>
>> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . Info-mode))
> 
> This doesn't work too.  It seems `Info-on-current-buffer' was created
> exactly for the purpose to be associated with .info in auto-mode-alist.
> It is not used anywhere else.

That doesn't work either: even if the file is editable, the buffer is read-only.

It should be something like:

(lambda ()
   (let ((Info-enable-edit buffer-read-only))
     (Info-on-current-buffer)
     (when Info-enable-edit
       (Info-edit))))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA