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bug#12187: 24.1.50; Regression: `Info-breadcrumbs-depth' should show `Fi
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#12187: 24.1.50; Regression: `Info-breadcrumbs-depth' should show `File:' without ".info" suffix |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:10:44 -0700 |
> > Eli, can you speak more of the advantage of showing the
> > suffix? E.g., are there cases where there might be more than
> > one manual with the same file name except for the suffix?
>
> Yes, there could be more than one manual with the same name, however
> unlikely. Not sure how important that is, though.
I would think that the suffix is not very important, and I have not heard
anything to the contrary. If the user had access to two manuals in different
_locations_ but with the same name, then I can see an advantage in somehow
making the full file name evident. (The file location is available in Emacs via
`pwd' etc.)
But I do not see an advantage in showing the suffix if there are two files in
the same location, one with suffix .info and the other without it.
> > And could you elaborate on how this relates to other Info readers
> > and why it can be important to show the suffix?
>
> What you see is simply the header line of every node, verbatim, as
> makeinfo generates it. If you visit the Info file literally, that is
> what you will see there at the beginning of each node. I don't think
> there's some deep philosophy here, just tradition and KISS, really.
I agree with Stefan - please elide the suffix in Emacs, at least. That could be
done during rendering, if you do not think that makeinfo should do it generally.
>From an Emacs _user_ perspective this is a regression. Whereas, before,
>`File:'
indicated only the manual, now it shows also a file-name suffix.
Arguments saying, in effect, "but that _is_ the file" would be logically the
same if Emacs suddenly started showing the full file name ("path") in that
field.
What is useful to users is the non-directory and non-suffix part of the file
name: "elisp". Especially since the suffix has no special meaning: there are
not different Info-file suffixes with different meanings, AFAIK. For users, the
suffix is noise.