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Re: auto-update of Info dir file?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: auto-update of Info dir file? |
Date: |
Wed, 17 May 2006 06:24:41 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:33:39 -0700
>
> To see how the stand-alone Info reader handles this, type at the
> shell's prompt "info info-stnd". There should be no menu entry that
> begins with the string "info-stnd" in your DIR file, but the
> stand-alone reader will find the right manual anyway.
>
> Yes, I have no problem with that, as far as it goes. I would also like to
> see the visible menu show what's available, so users don't need a crystal
> ball before they can know to type "info info-stnd". Even if seen in a
> completion list, "info-stnd" is hardly parlant.
Don't take the example too literally: I've chosen info-stnd because I
could be sure the example will work on your system. In the situation
that started this thread, it would have been "info elisp", which
doesn't really need a crystal ball at all.
> Ideally (another, future discussion, perhaps), users should be able to type
> keywords or a regexp and see a summary of the hits among all manuals - to
> see which manuals might be available and most appropriate for info on a
> particular subject.
You want "M-x info-apropos RET". We already have that.
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, (continued)
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/15
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/16
- RE: auto-update of Info dir file?, Drew Adams, 2006/05/16
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/16
- RE: auto-update of Info dir file?, Drew Adams, 2006/05/16
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/16
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/16