* XEmacs info.el and PGnus info files
@ 2000-05-29 14:44 Didier Verna
2000-05-29 15:26 ` François Pinard
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Didier Verna @ 2000-05-29 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
There's a problem:
- our info.el assumes that all info files have a .info extention (modulo
gzip compression and stuff).
- PGnus calls its info files gnus-[0-9]+
As a result, these files can never be seen in the Info buffer. I
discovered that because the PGnus info files are currently the only ones I
have in my site-packages directory, and this directory suddenly disapeared
from my Info buffer.
Personaly, I think that our info.el tries to be too clever, but I also
think that PGnus shouldn't mess around with makeinfo's output file name.
Waddyathink ?
--
/ / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/
- / / - / / /_/ / EPITA / LRDE mailto:didier@lrde.epita.fr
/_/ / /_/ / /__ / 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel. +33 (1) 44 08 01 77
94276 Kremlin-Bicêtre cedex Fax. +33 (1) 44 08 01 99
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: XEmacs info.el and PGnus info files
2000-05-29 14:44 XEmacs info.el and PGnus info files Didier Verna
@ 2000-05-29 15:26 ` François Pinard
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: François Pinard @ 2000-05-29 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: XEmacs Beta Testers, ding, Karl Berry
Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:
> - our info.el assumes that all info files have a .info extention (modulo
> gzip compression and stuff).
Gnus is not the only package to avoid `.info' as an extension. Moreover,
DJGPP might use different extensions.
> - PGnus calls its info files gnus-[0-9]+ [...]
> Personaly, I think that our info.el tries to be too clever, but I also
> think that PGnus shouldn't mess around with makeinfo's output file name.
Nothing wrong, there. Gnus is not messing with output file names, as
`makeinfo' default is a proposal, not a standard. A lot of Info files
do not (or did not?) have `.info' extension anyway. Maybe that `.info'
as an extension became mandated? That would be new to me, but I'm not
following everything. Cc:ing to Karl, who might have an opinion on this.
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: XEmacs info.el and PGnus info files
@ 2000-05-30 14:04 Karl Berry
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Karl Berry @ 2000-05-30 14:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: didier, xemacs-beta, ding
.info is not mandatory. The texinfo distribution itself uses texinfo-1,
texinfo-2, etc.
It also supports numerous other extensions, mostly for DOS.
static char *info_suffixes[] = {
".info",
"-info",
"/index",
".inf", /* 8+3 file on filesystem which supports long file names */
#ifdef __MSDOS__
/* 8+3 file names strike again... */
".in", /* for .inz, .igz etc. */
".i",
#endif
"",
NULL
};
static COMPRESSION_ALIST compress_suffixes[] = {
{ ".gz", "gunzip" },
{ ".bz2", "bunzip2" },
{ ".z", "gunzip" },
{ ".Z", "uncompress" },
{ ".Y", "unyabba" },
#ifdef __MSDOS__
{ "gz", "gunzip" },
{ "z", "gunzip" },
#endif
{ (char *)NULL, (char *)NULL }
};
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2000-05-30 14:04 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2000-05-29 14:44 XEmacs info.el and PGnus info files Didier Verna
2000-05-29 15:26 ` François Pinard
2000-05-30 14:04 Karl Berry
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).