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: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: usr.gentoo <at> googlemail.com
Cc: 5658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:37:07 +0800

usr.gentoo <at> googlemail.com writes:

> when visiting .info files in Emacs via find-file Emacs opens the file
> in the default major-mode instead of Emacs' info-mode.

I think it would be a bad idea to open in Info mode, since one
occasionally comes across plain text files with the .info extension.
Anyway, we have the `info-display-manual' command for this now.
Closing.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 190 days ago.

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