Re: {Spam?} Re: [Customize] [info] doesn't work

[Juri Linkov]

Stefan <address@hidden> writes:
>> I think `Info-goto-node' should have an autoload cookie.  I grepped
>> the source tree and there are many places where `info' is loaded
>> explicitly before calling `Info-goto-node'.  This will be unnecessary
>> with an autoload cookie.
>
> I believe all those cases could/should call `info' instead which *is*
> autoloaded and accepts pretty much the same syntax.

I prefer `info' over `Info-goto-node' too, but the problem is that
most uses of `Info-goto-node' are in separate packages distributed
with Emacs: Gnus, MH-E, URL, Calc, Ediff.  Changing them within Emacs
might cause merge conflicts, and convincing maintainers of these
packages to change the function name is not so easy since I don't see
a strong argument for them to change `Info-goto-node' to almost
equivalent `info'.  And there are countless Emacs packages not
distributed with Emacs where attempts to change `Info-goto-node'
to `info' are futile.

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Juri Linkov
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