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bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:55:36 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> This doesn't work too. It seems `Info-on-current-buffer' was created
>> exactly for the purpose to be associated with .info in auto-mode-alist.
>> It is not used anywhere else.
>
> Yes, I wrote Info-on-current-buffer specifically for this kind of use,
> but no it doesn't work for the auto-mode-alist, really.
> There is no good reason why it can't work for auto-mode-alist, but it's
> the way it currently is. Patches welcome,
I see only one problem with using Info-on-current-buffer for the
auto-mode-alist. Since it can't read the node name interactively,
it defaults to `Top' that may be missing in the current file of the
multi-file Info manual. Perhaps it should default to the first node of
the current file.
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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/