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: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:18:48 +0200

> 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))))

Definitely not.  `Info-edit' is not recommended to use according
to the docstring of `Info-enable-edit'. It is disabled by default.
Your code overrides its default value.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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