From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs/info/dir
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:33:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wypkodg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1F3iPF-0001iY-Ex@fencepost.gnu.org> (rms@gnu.org)
> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:25:57 -0500
>
> > Because I think an Info file shouldn't have TABs in it.
> >
> > Why not?
>
> Because Texinfo mode sets indent-tabs-mode to nil.
>
> That is for the sake of passing the file to TeX.
> It has nothing to do with Info files.
But it has the side effect of producing Info files with no TABs.
> So I don't see any reason to untabify info files.
> Perhaps you should take that change out.
Why? it didn't hurt anything (modulo my stupid taking out the TABs in
the Node line, which is now fixed).
> Did it solve any real problem?
Spurious diffs when comparing to DIR created/rearranged by
install-info.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-31 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-27 21:32 emacs/info/dir Johan Bockgård
2006-01-29 4:45 ` emacs/info/dir Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-30 0:57 ` emacs/info/dir Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-30 4:40 ` emacs/info/dir Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-30 23:25 ` emacs/info/dir Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-31 4:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-01-31 23:09 ` emacs/info/dir Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-01 4:19 ` emacs/info/dir Eli Zaretskii
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