bug#11168: All headers but one missing in main *Info* buffer

[Stefan Kangas]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > 2. `Info-streamline-headings' should be a user option, not a defvar.
>>
>> I'm not sure that this is something that people will commonly want to
>> customize.
>
> Why not?  (And why must an option be something that's
> _commonly_ modified by users?)

I just don't think it's all that useful.

> In this bug report you have a user asking about the
> format/content of Info, with no way to find out about
> what's happening, without filing a bug.

But that was because there had just been a change, many moons ago.
Right?  Or have we seen many questions since?

IMO, Info-streamline-headings is fine for what it's trying to do, which
AFAICT is mainly to consolidate all Emacs stuff under one heading.

But it seems to me that the GNU project/Info or whoever should rather
make sure that the organization of headlines makes sense.  It seems
pretty chaotic on my machine, and different projects seem to follow
various different conventions.  So I'd personally rather users filed bug
reports to the respective projects, or to makeinfo, or against the GNU
coding standards or something.