GNU bug report logs - #42753
26.3; `info-lookup.el': Add all manuals delivered by `emacs -Q', for `emacs-lisp-mode'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 22:21:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 42753 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#42753: 26.3; `info-lookup.el': Add all manuals delivered by `emacs -Q', for `emacs-lisp-mode'
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:36:48 +0200
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Yes, indeed.  But looking at the code, it seems like the basic info-look
> infrastructure doesn't really want to support Eli's idea here.  That is,
> for `emacs-lisp-mode', we want to register a bunch of regexps that map
> to different manuals (i.e., if the symbol starts with rmail, look in the
> rmail manual and so on), but there's just one regexp per mode.
>
> So it seems like a bigger rewrite is necessary here, unfortunately.

I've now made some headway here, and it basically works now for many of
the "misc" manuals.  The remaining problem is that there's not a
standardised way to name the indices (eww has "lisp function index"
instead of "function index", for instance), so I think I have to extend
info-look with a way to get all the index nodes or something.

Or rename the index nodes in the manuals to all follow the same naming
conventions...

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