bug#60190: 29.0.50; Improve `Info-goto-node-web'

[Eduardo Ochs]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 09:31, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Cc: 60190@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:02:47 -0300
> >
> >   (defvar Info-url-base
> >     '(("emacs"  . 
> > "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/";)
> >       ("elisp"  . 
> > "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/";)
> >       ("eintr"  .
> > "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_node/";)
> >       ("efaq"   . 
> > "https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/";)
> >       ("cl"     . "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/cl/";)
> >       ("eshell" . 
> > "https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/";)
> >       ("org"    . 
> > "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/";)))
>
> Aren't these mappings trivial?  You seem to be prepending the same
> prefix to the exact name of the Info file (sans extension).  Or what
> did I miss?

No, look at the case of the eintr...

And if we use a table for the conversion then users can add new
entries to it easily, including entries that don't follow that
pattern. For example, this one:

  (add-to-alist 'Info-url-base
    '("slime" . "https://slime.common-lisp.dev/doc/html/";))

Cheers,
  Eduardo