GNU bug report logs - #57114
29.0.50; texinfo-format-buffer in auth.texi leads to backtrace

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Message #23 received at 57114 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 57114 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57114: 29.0.50; texinfo-format-buffer in auth.texi leads to
 backtrace
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:30:02 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Do you mean that I should do this first, before I run
>> `M-x texinfo-format-buffer'?
>> 
>>     M-: (setq default-directory (expand-file-name "../emacs/"))
>
> Yes, but you can do it much easier, with the "M-x cd" command.

But this all means that the texinfmt.el don't really work (by default).
Since they've obviously not worked in quite a while, and it duplicates
functionality elsewhere (that actually works), I think we should
obsolete texinfmt.el.

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