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> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 02:09:06 -0500
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
> 
> OK, here is a new copy of dir.txi

Thanks.

> This is only the categorical listing.  Does anyone think we also
> need a 
> strictly alphabetical listing under the heading "Individual
> utilities", 
> or perhaps "Alphabetical listing of utilities"?

Adding an alphabetical listing will make DIR very long, so please
tell what do you think that will be useful for.  Perhaps there are
alternative ways of achieving the same goal(s).

> Editing files
> * Ed: (ed).		GNU Ed, a simple but powerful text editor.
> * Emacs: (emacs).	The extensible self-documenting text editor.

The Emacs entry is redundant: Emacs comes with its own DIR files, and
Info concatenates all the DIR files it finds along INFOPATH.  So in
practice, there will already be an entry for Emacs if the user has
Emacs installed.  (The DIR file from the Emacs distribution has quite
a few additional entries, in addition to the Emacs entry proper, for
the auxiliary manuals it brings, so duplicating just one could be
confusing.)

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