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: 22 Mar 2004 08:33:27 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403191747.i2JHlPS28017@f7.net> <3405-Sat20Mar2004160433+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079937340 25347 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 06:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:35:40 +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 Mon Mar 22 07:35:36 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 1B5J28-0003fm-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:35:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5J28-0004RJ-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:35:36 +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 1B5Iz8-0004BW-VQ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:32:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5IyN-0003uI-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:31:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Ixr-0003kW-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:31:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Ixr-0003iF-9L; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:31:11 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:24:20 -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:20712 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20712 > From: Richard Stallman > > @gindex strcpy > > will produce something that install-info could copy to the > system-wide database I mentioned above. > > This has two major disadvantages. > > 1. It fails to catagorize the names. I don't want to have command > names mixed up with C functions and Perl functions and Lisp > functions and file formats. This one can be easily fixed by adding a category argument to the new directive. > 2. It requires changes in texinfo itself. I am seeking a > solution that does not require any changes in makeinfo > or install-info. I think we will need changes at least in install-info, since DIR file will have to be changed, or else an external database will need to be created. If we leave DIR as it is now, and rely on the Info reader to generate the additional nodes/data structures, the startup time will become slow, and the `man'-style "info strcpy" feature, which assumes that the reader is launched anew for each query, will be impossible.