Re: gnuplot-mode and Gnuplot licensing question

[Jonathan O. <j.j...@gm...>]

> 
> I'd say the better method would be to write a quick doc2tooltip.c
> program to parallel the others.  It would look for the string
>   Syntax:
> in gnuplot.doc and extract the following lines into a tooltip
> collection.


Indeed, that's a better idea; thanks for the suggestion. Now that I
look at the docs/ directory I see there is already a `doc2texi.el'
contributed by Bruce Ravel, the author of gnuplot-mode. It would
probably make the most sense for me to modify that to output an Elisp
file of tooltips along with the texinfo file. Any objections?

I would hope that would also nullify the license conflict problem, but
someone correct me if I'm wrong.

> Probably there are some commands that don't have this keyword
> in the current *.doc file, but it seems reasonable to standardize
> them  if it helps a real-world use.


I agree -- if anyone uses this enough to be annoyed by its limitations in
the future, it can be addressed then.


Jonathan