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Re: Compressed info files
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Compressed info files |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:13:48 +0100 |
Hi Karl!
> Le 11 mars 2015 à 19:03, Karl Berry <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Back to square one: it should be clearer, somewhere rather
> easily reachable, that compressed files are supported :)
>
> Hi Akim - I'm afraid I don't even really agree with that. My experience
> is that most users are happy if they type "info foo" (or m foo RET) and
> get something relevant to foo. Just reaching that goal, to the extent
> that we have, has been an ambitious undertaking :).
Well, maybe there are instruction left somewhere for
packagers, but I don't know about that. So I looked
naively in "info info".
> Whether the info page found is compressed seems irrelevant to readers.
> Sure, it should be documented somewhere (it is already in info-stnd) but
> not necessarily "easily reachable". Also, anything is equally
> reachable with search.
>
> I'm not for creating a patch to info.texi that has a chance of
> acceptance by emacs, but maybe someone else is.
Sure. Let's drop this. Anyway, I reached my point: now
google will point to these messages if someone looks for
information about support of compressed info files ;)
- Re: Compressed info files, (continued)
- Re: Compressed info files, Gavin Smith, 2015/03/09
- Re: Compressed info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/03/09
- Re: Compressed info files, Akim Demaille, 2015/03/10
- Re: Compressed info files, Karl Berry, 2015/03/10
- Re: Compressed info files, Akim Demaille, 2015/03/11
- Re: Compressed info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/03/11
- Re: Compressed info files, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2015/03/11
- Re: Compressed info files, Karl Berry, 2015/03/12
- Re: Compressed info files, Akim Demaille, 2015/03/11
- Re: Compressed info files, Karl Berry, 2015/03/11
- Re: Compressed info files,
Akim Demaille <=