bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer

[Juri Linkov]

>> when visiting .info files in Emacs via find-file Emacs opens the file in the
>> default major-mode instead of Emacs' info-mode. I suggest therefore to add 
>> the
>> following default-association:
>>
>>  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . info))
>
> The value of major-mode in an Info buffer is Info-mode:
>
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . Info-mode))

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.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/