Antonio wrote:

> I cannot answer for Bram, but my own philosophy is "find a way to make it
> work". If this is not very linear, well, that's life. Neovim tries to
> address your concerns. I don't really know how it works, but you could have
> a look at it. I am happy with the *status quo* in Vim.
> 
> About the help files, there is a reason for all that.
> The English tags file is named "tags". Every "national" file is named
> tags-ll. Easy to find and easy to check. The READMEll.txt file is not
> really necessary, but it explains something about the way the translation
> was managed. For Italian, it also states the patchlevel of the translation.
> The .llx files are the real thing and they can coexist with the .txt files
> in the doc directory. It seems rather logical to me (maybe we don't have
> the same perspective on the matter).
> In my case, when I update a Vim help file, I just call a script (e.g.:
> updaitx options). All the rest (managing tags, READMEit.txt) is buried in
> the script.

Renaming files just to make it look nicer is not a good reason.
It always causes trouble, just because things change, while there is no
real improvement for the user.

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