5:59 p.m.
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Dear Bug Team!
XEmacs doesn't allow to eval expressions like (info "(texinfo)itemx")
that are often given as hints in newsgroups using `C-x C-e' (after the
closing brace) because the argument of `info' must be a filename only:
,----[ C-h f info RET in XEmacs ]
| `info' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
| -- loaded from "info"
| (info &optional FILE)
|
| Documentation:
| Enter Info, the documentation browser.
| Optional argument FILE specifies the file to examine;
| the default is the top-level directory of Info.
|
| In interactive use, a prefix argument directs this command
| to read a file name from the minibuffer.
`----
GNU Emacs' `info' command supports both, filename and node name:
,----[ C-h f info RET in Emacs ]
| info is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `info'.
| (info &optional FILE)
|
| Enter Info, the documentation browser.
| Optional argument FILE specifies the file to examine;
| the default is the top-level directory of Info.
| Called from a program, FILE may specify an Info node of the form
| `(FILENAME)NODENAME'.
|
| In interactive use, a prefix argument directs this command
| to read a file name from the minibuffer.
|
| The search path for Info files is in the variable `Info-directory-list'.
| The top-level Info directory is made by combining all the files named `dir'
| in all the directories in that path.
`----
Please don't say that everybody should write `Info-goto-node' instead.
It's clearly preferable to write (info "(texinfo)itemx") instead of
(Info-goto-node "(texinfo)itemx").
Bye, Reiner.
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System Info to help track down your bug:
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uname -a: Linux ni 2.4.18-4GB #1 Mon Mar 24 14:37:51 GMT 2003 i686 unknown
./configure '--prefix=/import/xtra/emacs/xemacs-21.4.12' '--with-msw=no'
'--with-mule=yes'
XEmacs 21.4.12 "Portable Code" configured for `i686-pc-linux'.
[... deleted, as it's irrelevant ...]
7:07 p.m.
>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib
<4.uce.03.r.s(a)nurfuerspam.de> writes:
Reiner> Please don't say that everybody should write
Reiner> `Info-goto-node' instead. It's clearly preferable to
Reiner> write (info "(texinfo)itemx") instead of (Info-goto-node
Reiner> "(texinfo)itemx").
OK, so I'll say, "patches welcome."
XEmacs is user-supported software, yadda, yadda, yadda, ....
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8:21 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 15 2003, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib
<4.uce.03.r.s(a)nurfuerspam.de> writes:
Reiner> It's clearly preferable to write (info "(texinfo)itemx")
Reiner> instead of (Info-goto-node "(texinfo)itemx").
OK, so I'll say, "patches welcome."
XEmacs is user-supported software, yadda, yadda, yadda, ....
I'm an Emacs user. ;-)
If it's not against some policy, you may use the code from Emacs.
I eval'ed the defun of `info' in XEmacs and it worked. Okay, have a
patch then (code from Emacs 21.3)...
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- /home/dept/ste/tmp/info.el.orig Tue Apr 15 20:58:36 2003
+++ /home/dept/ste/tmp/info.el Tue Apr 15 20:58:36 2003
＠＠ -571,6 +571,9 ＠＠
Optional argument FILE specifies the file to examine;
the default is the top-level directory of Info.
+Called from a program, FILE may specify an Info node of the form
+`(FILENAME)NODENAME'.
+
In interactive use, a prefix argument directs this command
to read a file name from the minibuffer."
(interactive (if current-prefix-arg
＠＠ -589,7 +592,15 ＠＠
; (Info-setup-x) ??? What was this going to be? Can anyone tell karlheg?
(if file
(unwind-protect
- (Info-goto-node (concat "(" file ")"))
+ (progn
+ (pop-to-buffer "*info*")
+ ;; If argument already contains parentheses, don't add another set
+ ;; since the argument will then be parsed improperly. This also
+ ;; has the added benefit of allowing node names to be included
+ ;; following the parenthesized filename.
+ (if (and (stringp file) (string-match "(.*)" file))
+ (Info-goto-node file)
+ (Info-goto-node (concat "(" file ")"))))
(and Info-standalone (info)))
(if (get-buffer "*info*")
(switch-to-buffer "*info*")
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Warning: Not tested carefully.
Suggested ChangeLog entry:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
2003-04-15 Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib(a)gmx.de>
* info.el (info): Support `(filename)nodename' as argument.
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Bye, Reiner.
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6:12 a.m.
|--==> "RS" == Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s(a)nurfuerspam.de> writes:
RS> XEmacs doesn't allow to eval expressions like (info
"(texinfo)itemx")
RS> that are often given as hints in newsgroups using `C-x C-e' (after
RS> the closing brace) because the argument of `info' must be a filename
You're using a recent Oort Gnus, for mail at least, have you tried
hitting RET or button2 on (info "(texinfo)itemx") in the Gnus article
buffer in XEmacs? It works fine.
I know that you can't `eval-last-sexp' it, I'm just pointing out that
you can go directly from the "link" in the article buffer in Gnus to
the info buffer in question with XEmacs.
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