From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 20:48:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hbzzs7ax.fsf@gmail.com> <8363gfe2r1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241830158 31125 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2009 00:49:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 00:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel , Karl Berry To: Vincent =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bela=EFche?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 02:49:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M2akV-000721-Nw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 02:49:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2akV-0008QZ-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 20:49:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2akQ-0008On-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 20:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2akL-0008KQ-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 20:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53774 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2akL-0008KN-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 20:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:32927 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2akL-00035M-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 20:48:57 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AskGAOBvBErO+IYe/2dsb2JhbACBUIEwzRqDfQWFVw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,320,1238990400"; d="scan'208";a="38254962" Original-Received: from 206-248-134-30.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.134.30]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 08 May 2009 20:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DE1357FA7; Fri, 8 May 2009 20:48:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: ("Vincent =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bela=EFche=22's?= message of "Fri, 8 May 2009 22:36:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110792 Archived-At: > Well just to give some examples, I have downloaded the info file of > Bash and that of Texinfo on my machine and I have installed them with > install-info by hand. I also installed all the manuals that were > coming with the MinGW tool-chain with install-info. I am also writing > myself 3 manuals for emacs extension packages (one is for > emacs-template which is still under discussion with Christoph Wedler, > and the two other are for extension packages I am developping myself), > and I had also to install them with install-info. I must admit that I don't compile packages by hand very often nowadays, but back when I did that, I very rarely used install-info since usually the info files were installed by `make' instead. > I recognize that it is not that often, but it happens... Fair enough. To tell you truth, since this rule is only for files that end in ".info" it doesn't have to be frequent, it only has to be more frequent than other commands that one might apply to .info files. So `install-info' is probably a good candidate, indeed. > There are a number of options to call install-info, like for any other > commands. But this is also true for any of the commands that are > invoked by means of the dired-x default shell guess. I think that the > shape > install-info file.info dir > is the most common... but you should cross check this with Karl Berry... That was my impression as well. So why is the suggested command using the weird `for' loop (which will make it apply to all kinds of other unrelated files). Stefan