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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
User-agent: 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/





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