Re: info.info conflict between emacs and texinfo

2013-03-18 Thread Karl Berry
Both emacs and texinfo install the info.info info file. This needs to be resolved. Fine, I'll remove it from Texinfo, since in practice info.texi has been maintained in Emacs for many years. (I've been copying it from the latest Emacs distribution before making a Texinfo release.) k

Re: info.info conflict between emacs and texinfo

2013-03-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 18 Mär 2013, Karl Berry wrote: Both emacs and texinfo install the info.info info file. This needs to be resolved. Fine, I'll remove it from Texinfo, since in practice info.texi has been maintained in Emacs for many years. (I've been copying it from the latest Emacs

Re: info.info conflict between emacs and texinfo

2013-03-18 Thread Karl Berry
But isn't that strange ... I mean texinfo ships the info reader, Emacs ships an Info reader too -- the original one, and one far more commonly used than standalone Info, I suspect. And most all changes to info.texi in the last X years have been about info.el and Emacs things. shouldn't

Re: info.info conflict between emacs and texinfo

2013-03-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 18 Mär 2013, Karl Berry wrote: Well, it will still include info-stnd.texi. Sorry, yes, of course, info-stnd is the doc of the info program. Mixed it with the documentation of info format. Uffa. I suppose the problem is that then people who want to use standalone Info will have to

Re: info.info conflict between emacs and texinfo

2013-03-18 Thread Karl Berry
Sorry, yes, of course, info-stnd is the doc of the info program. Mixed it with the documentation of info format. Uffa. Actually, info.texi is mostly a tutorial on using Info readers -- applicable to both readers. It's not at all about documenting Info format (Patrice and I wrote that for