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: Bootstrap deleted DOC-nnn file Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83vc6rb31c.fsf@gnu.org> <83a9o2at0z.fsf@gnu.org> <834ne9brlz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368458138 25371 80.91.229.3 (13 May 2013 15:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 13 17:15:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UbuTP-0007QL-Fg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 17:15:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbuTO-000325-O8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbuTL-00030k-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbuTF-0006Os-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:18634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbuTC-0006OD-VP; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rwb8/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rwb8/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="11909138" Original-Received: from 184-175-6-252.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.6.252]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 13 May 2013 11:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 84F1B67B0D; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 11 May 2013 17:44:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159542 Archived-At: > But... the dumped Emacs contains offsets in the DOC file. > If the DOC file is changed, those references won't work. No, they don't, but if the reference is found to be pointing to a wrong place, the Snarf-documentation is called again to reset the offsets, so the references work again. I know, because I've been using such a configuration for many years now. Stefan