GNU bug report logs - #5658
23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: usr.gentoo <at> googlemail.com

Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:09:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:10:46 -0700

Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> when visiting .info files in Emacs via find-file Emacs opens the file in the
>>> default major-mode instead of Emacs' info-mode. I suggest therefore to add the
>>> following default-association:
>>>
>>>  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . info))
>> The value of major-mode in an Info buffer is Info-mode:
>>
>> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . Info-mode))
> 
> This doesn't work too.  It seems `Info-on-current-buffer' was created
> exactly for the purpose to be associated with .info in auto-mode-alist.
> It is not used anywhere else.

That doesn't work either: even if the file is editable, the buffer is read-only.

It should be something like:

(lambda ()
  (let ((Info-enable-edit buffer-read-only))
    (Info-on-current-buffer)
    (when Info-enable-edit
      (Info-edit))))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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