Re: doc2texi.el and gnuplot-mode contextual help

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday, 25 April 2012, Jon Oddie wrote:
> 
> 3521460 patches doc2texi to additionally create an Elisp file of ElDoc
> strings (Emacs' version of tooltips) extracted from the Syntax:
> 
> 3521457 fixes a couple of minor bugs (avoiding inserting multiple
> copies of the same terminal help, which sometimes happened before)
> 
> There's probably little point in merging these unless/until the
> corresponding pieces are merged in a new release of gnuplot-mode

When you say "little point in merging", does that mean it's harmless
or does it mean it will break something for people not using an
updated gnuplot-mode?   Harmless looking back but useful going
forward is fine.  Broken until you upgrade is not.

	Ethan




> , but
> I wanted to put them out there. If there are any interested Emacs
> users on this list they can check out the `context' branch of
> gnuplot-mode at
> https://github.com/bruceravel/gnuplot-mode/tree/context and see if it
> works for them.
> 
> I also wanted to ask if it would be OK in the meantime to include a
> copy of either (a) the auto-generated 'gnuplot-eldoc.el' strings file
> or (b) the patched doc2texi.el, in the gnuplot-mode repository.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9 Feb 2012, at 18:50, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> 
> >>> 
> >>> 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
> 
> 
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