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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:50:22 -0500
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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
Subject: Re: Simpler restructured dir.txi
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At 12:14 PM 3/10/02 -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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 >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).

Personally, I don't think it will add any usefulness to DIR.  But I did 
think it was a good idea not to depend on my own preferences alone, so 
I posed the question to the community.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, "info <utility name>" is 
sufficient when I need to look up individual utilities.

 >> 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.)

OK, I'll remove that entry.
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