Re: gnuplot-mode and Gnuplot licensing question

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

> > 
> > 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?

No objections. Just a warning that the code in doc2texi.el may itself 
be a bit rusty.  I seem to recall some reports of problems with the
*.info file involving infinite loops of redirected links or something
like that.

	Ethan