From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: 23 Mar 2004 08:19:14 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403191747.i2JHlPS28017@f7.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080022688 367 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 06:18:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:18:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 07:18:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5fEi-0004SB-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:18:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5fEi-00013d-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:18:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5fEF-00075s-Jo for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5fE9-00074c-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5fDd-0006xE-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:17:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5fDc-0006wR-B7; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:16:56 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 22 Mar 2004 21:26:43 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20768 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20768 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: 22 Mar 2004 21:26:43 -0500 > > This is called info-lookup and it already works. A data structure similar to that used by info-lookup can be easily added to the stand-alone reader, but I was under the impression that this discussion tries to find a way of generating or updating its equivalent at install-info time. info-lookup leaves that to the end user (given the low frequency of Emacs releases). Also, info-lookup doesn't help when someone wants to see the equivalent of "info --usage make" and its ilk, it only knows about symbols in certain programming languages/packages. > We're talking about the command-line `info' utility. > It should really be taken off the Emacs list. It is relevant to Emacs if we want to improve what info-lookup does. But I agree that it's more Texinfo-oriented than Emacs-oriented.