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Re: Info fails to find history.info
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Info fails to find history.info |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:51:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> The readline 5.1 package comes with a file named history.info which
> documents the GNU history library. The Info subsystem of Emacs fails
> to find history.info because it treats the file name "history" as
> special. In particular, (Info-find-file "history") always returns the
> symbol history instead of a path to a file. This makes it somewhat
> hard to read the manual for the GNU history library.
The same problem exists for other possible Info file names: "apropos" and
"toc" whose virtual file names were reserved recently. I see at least
two solutions:
1. Use symbols for the file name argument of `Info-find-node'
for virtual Info files:
e.g. use (Info-find-node 'apropos "Index")
instead of (Info-find-node "apropos" "Index")
2. Reserve less likely file names for virtual Info files,
e.g. "info-apropos", "info-history", "info-toc".
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/