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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: ams@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .info files
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:12:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv62d5rkxs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1SILAb-0001Mh-SV@fencepost.gnu.org> (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:38:45 -0400")

> It would be nice if .info files opened up in Info-mode automatically.
> E.g. something like,

> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
> 	     '("\\.info\\'" . (lambda () (interactive)
> 				(let ((file-name (buffer-file-name)))
> 				  (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
> 				  (info file-name)))))

Agreed.  I wrote Info-on-current-buffer a long time ago to try and
address this need, but it's clearly not good enough.
Your code above is (sadly) not quite good enough either since its use of
kill-buffer+info will likely introduce misbehaviors in various cases.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-12 14:38 .info files Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-12 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-04-12 16:49   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-12 18:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-12 21:58       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-13  9:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-19 10:44           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-05-04  6:53             ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-04  9:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 19:16                 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-04 20:49                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 21:33                     ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-04 23:01                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-05-05  0:30                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-06  1:24                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-06  2:55                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05  7:05                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05 11:41                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-05-05 20:14                         ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-06  2:52                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-08  6:28                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-08 17:31                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-17 13:34         ` Nix
2012-04-13 19:19       ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-13 21:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-13 21:19           ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14  7:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14  8:04               ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-14  9:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 10:14                   ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-14 11:28                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 18:01                       ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 18:13                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 17:44                           ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-16 19:13                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 20:26                               ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-16 20:33                                 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 17:56                   ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 18:12                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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