Re: Bug#793067: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 09:00:14 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Rob Browning <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>       Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> One idea I had, which could be useful for Windows and other systems
> lacking symlinks, is to make an Info file itself operate as a kind of
> symlink. When the target is a non-split file, the indirect file would
> have the form of a split Info file, with a single file mentioned in
> its indirect sub-file table, being the absolute path of the target
> file. This would work because sub-files of split files are identical
> in format to non-split files. The two possible problems I foresee are
> that indirect sub-file tables have hitherto never contained absolute
> paths

Why would it need to, since this is only about renaming the basename
of the Info file, isn't it?

> >> and why is it important enough to add an extra feature for them that
> >> isn't needed on other operating systems, complicating the situation
> >> for everybody else who isn't using them?
> >
> > Init files are a widely used feature, it's not a complication at all.
> 
> Clearly it is a complication to design an init file format, write code
> to parse it, and explain to users how to write such init files.

Sorry, I don't follow: Info already supports an init file, so the
above code already exists, right?