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 08:29:32 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403181837.i2IIbUV23148@f7.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079937053 24902 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 06:30:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:30:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 07:30:45 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 1B5IxR-0003XI-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:30:45 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5IxR-0004Cs-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:30:45 +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 1B5Iw3-0003Bk-A8 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Iuc-0002je-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Iu4-0002T1-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Iu3-0002Sc-QK; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:27:16 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:25:28 -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:20711 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20711 > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:25:28 -0500 > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you envisioning the idea that > > the libc manual could create an entry in the info dir for each library > > function? I see no reason to put them in the info directory > > AFAIU, the glibc manual did just that. > > It does not look that way to me. Could someone show me a portion of > the text which does this, and tell me the filename and node name? I think you don't see this because your glibc version is not recent enough. On a Debian GNU/Linux box that identifies itself as Linux pot.isti.cnr.it 2.4.24 #1 Mon Jan 26 15:20:26 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux I found a glibc manual whose preamble says This is Edition 0.10, last updated 2001-07-06, of `The GNU C Library Reference Manual', for Version 2.3.x of the GNU C Library. That manual comes with a file `libc-dir-add.info.gz' which contains an INFO-DIR-ENTRY which looks like below, and it is copied into the DIR file. Maybe it's a Debian thing, not something that comes with a glibc distribution, I don't know (didn't have time to fetch a tarball and look there). INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU C library functions START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * ALTWERASE: (libc)Local Modes. * ARGP_ERR_UNKNOWN: (libc)Argp Parser Functions. * ARG_MAX: (libc)General Limits. * BC_BASE_MAX: (libc)Utility Limits. * BC_DIM_MAX: (libc)Utility Limits. * BC_SCALE_MAX: (libc)Utility Limits. * BC_STRING_MAX: (libc)Utility Limits. * BRKINT: (libc)Input Modes. * BUFSIZ: (libc)Controlling Buffering. * CCTS_OFLOW: (libc)Control Modes. * CHILD_MAX: (libc)General Limits. * CIGNORE: (libc)Control Modes. * CLK_TCK: (libc)CPU Time. [... lots of entries deleted for brevity ...] * wscanf: (libc)Formatted Input Functions. * y0: (libc)Special Functions. * y0f: (libc)Special Functions. * y0l: (libc)Special Functions. * y1: (libc)Special Functions. * y1f: (libc)Special Functions. * y1l: (libc)Special Functions. * yn: (libc)Special Functions. * ynf: (libc)Special Functions. * ynl: (libc)Special Functions. * {(*__gconv_end_fct)}: (libc)glibc iconv Implementation. * {(*__gconv_fct)}: (libc)glibc iconv Implementation. * {(*__gconv_init_fct)}: (libc)glibc iconv Implementation. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY