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Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-dat


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:16:56 +0300 (IDT)

On 23 Apr 2002, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Eli> looking up the function in the indices of the Info manual
>     Eli> associated with the function whose name you type.
> 
> Do you mean that as written, ie, functions somehow get a
> 'info-manual-name property (seems unlikely but possible), or do you
> mean (as implied by your reference to INFOPATH) that Emacs looks in
> the index of every manual on INFOPATH etc?

The former: Emacs has a set of rules to know in which manual to look
for the documentation of a given function.  See the alist called
`Info-file-list-for-emacs' defined in info.el.

> except on Debian where
> they reference the GNU Emacs versions of all the manuals in the (dir)
> node, and bury manuals from XEmacs under xemacs21::).

Yes, that's a known gripe about Debian.



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