Hi Karl! > Le 11 mars 2015 à 19:03, Karl Berry <[email protected]> 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 ;)
