bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > when visiting .info files in Emacs via find-file Emacs opens the file in the
> > > default major-mode instead of Emacs' info-mode. I suggest therefore to add the
> > > following default-association:
> > >
> > >  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . info))
> > The value of major-mode in an Info buffer is Info-mode:
> >
> > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . Info-mode))
>
> This doesn't work too.  It seems `Info-on-current-buffer' was created
> exactly for the purpose to be associated with .info in auto-mode-alist.
> It is not used anywhere else.

That doesn't work either: even if the file is editable, the buffer is read-only.

It should be something like:

(lambda ()
  (let ((Info-enable-edit buffer-read-only))
    (Info-on-current-buffer)
    (when Info-enable-edit
      (Info-edit))))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA