From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76397 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:12:01 +0200 Message-ID: <831v3ma532.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ei7makon.fsf@gnu.org> <83ei7makon.fsf@gnu.org> <838vxuaek9.fsf@gnu.org> <877hdebm01.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296918734 23290 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2011 15:12:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 15:12:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 05 16:12:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pljnz-0002ll-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:12:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pljny-0007Eb-TI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:12:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42342 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pljns-0007EC-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:12:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pljnn-0006uJ-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:43173) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pljnm-0006u6-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LG500600GRWIS00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:11:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.97.124]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LG50067YGVSFQ60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:11:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <877hdebm01.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135615 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76397 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:21:18 -0600 > Cc: ding@gnus.org > > Now, overrides.texi is for Gnus manuals overrides: settings we may want > to propagate to all our manuals. So I think it makes sense to have it, > just not the way I did it with shell redirection. I renamed it to > gnus-overrides.texi and it can be used for things we want to use in all > the Gnus manuals in the future. I hope that's OK with everyone; if not > it's easy enough to pull that include out. I don't necessarily see a problem, but I don't understand why you need a .texi file for these overrides. At least the "@set FOO" part of those overrides can be easily handled by add -DFOO switch to MAKEINFO_OPTS. More generally, what is a user supposed to do if she does want to put something on gnus-overrides.texi? That's a versioned file, so "bzr status" will show it as modified, and there's still a danger of having it committed inadvertently. How is this better than just modifying gnu.texi or any other file directly?